BAHRAM GUR IN THE GREEN PAVILION
BAHRAM GUR IN THE TURQUOISE PAVILION

SAFAVID SHIRAZ, MID 16TH CENTURY

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BAHRAM GUR IN THE TURQUOISE PAVILION
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, MID 16TH CENTURY
An illustration from the Haft Paykar of Nizami, gouache heightend with gold on paper, Bahram Gur wearing a feathered crown sits on a raised dais in conversation with Princess Naz-Pari from Khawarazm, musicians and attendants around them, lines of nasta'liq above and below divided into four columns with a gold heading, mounted on wide gold floral decorated margins
Miniature 8¾ x 5in. (22.5 x 12.7cm.); folio 11 1/8 x 7¼in. (28.3 x 18.5cm.)

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