BAHRAM GUR ON THURSDAY VISITING THE SANDELWOOD PAVILION
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, CIRCA 1540
From the Haft Paykar of Nizami, gouache heightened with gold on paper, Bahram Gur and the Chinese princess sit in the sandelwood pavilion, watching a group of musicians and dancers and attended by maidservants, with 5ll. of black nasta'liq above and below arranged in 4 columns with gold and polychrome illuminated intercolumnar rules, heading in white nasta'liq on gold panel with gold and polychrome floral illumiantion above, the composition within gold and polychrome rules on wide cream margins, minor areas of staining, mounted and glazed
Miniature 7 7/8 x 6 7/8in. (20.2 x 17/4cm.); foliio 13¼ x 9¼in. (33.9 x 23.3cm.)
BAHRAM GUR ON THURSDAY VISITING THE SANDELWOOD PAVILION
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, CIRCA 1540
From the Haft Paykar of Nizami, gouache heightened with gold on paper, Bahram Gur and the Chinese princess sit in the sandelwood pavilion, watching a group of musicians and dancers and attended by maidservants, with 5ll. of black nasta'liq above and below arranged in 4 columns with gold and polychrome illuminated intercolumnar rules, heading in white nasta'liq on gold panel with gold and polychrome floral illumiantion above, the composition within gold and polychrome rules on wide cream margins, minor areas of staining, mounted and glazed
Miniature 7 7/8 x 6 7/8in. (20.2 x 17/4cm.); foliio 13¼ x 9¼in. (33.9 x 23.3cm.)
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