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SAFAVID SHIRAZ, 16TH CENTURY
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KING KAYD OF HINDUSTAN RECEIVES ALEXANDER'S AMBASSADORS
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, 16TH CENTURY
An illustration from the Shahnama of Firdawsi, gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicting King Kayd of Hindustan enthroned conversing with his daughter who sits on a smaller throne to his left, lower left-hand corner with Alexander's ambassadors wearing large turbans conversing with members of Kayd's court, set between four columns of lines of elegant nasta'liq in white clouds divided on gold ground, laid down between gold-outlined animal and bird margins, verso with gold and polychrome illuminated heading and with four columns of nasta'liq verses, mounted, glazed and framed
Miniature 9 5/8 x 6¼in. (24.4 x 15.8cm.); folio 14½ x 9¾in. (36.8 x 24.8cm.)
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, 16TH CENTURY
An illustration from the Shahnama of Firdawsi, gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicting King Kayd of Hindustan enthroned conversing with his daughter who sits on a smaller throne to his left, lower left-hand corner with Alexander's ambassadors wearing large turbans conversing with members of Kayd's court, set between four columns of lines of elegant nasta'liq in white clouds divided on gold ground, laid down between gold-outlined animal and bird margins, verso with gold and polychrome illuminated heading and with four columns of nasta'liq verses, mounted, glazed and framed
Miniature 9 5/8 x 6¼in. (24.4 x 15.8cm.); folio 14½ x 9¾in. (36.8 x 24.8cm.)
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