COURTIERS PRESENT GIFTS TO A RULER

SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1560

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COURTIERS PRESENT GIFTS TO A RULER
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1560
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a regal figure sits beneath an arch as courtiers deliver gifts outside, set inside a border of gold and polychrome interlocking double palmettes on blue ground, laid down on later wide red margin, reverse with stamp of the Maharaja of Bikaner, top right-hand corner repainted over original text panel
Illustration 8½ x 5in. (21.3 x 12.6cm.); folio 14 5/8 x 9in. (37.1 x 22.8cm.)

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Lot Essay

The depiction of the figures in this painting with their long bodies slightly curved at the waist show clear influence from the Qazvin style of Safavid painting of the 1550's. A Shahnama manuscript with closely comparable illustrations also attributed to Shiraz circa 1560 is in the Topkapi Palace Museum Library in Istanbul (inv. TSML H.1500, see Lale Uluç Turkman governors Shriaz artisans and Ottoman collectors: Sixteenth Century Shiraz Manuscripts, Istanbul, 2006, no.129, pp. 180-81.

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