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SHIRAZ, IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
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AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A SAFAVID MANUSCRIPT: YUSUF AND ZULAYKHA
SHIRAZ, IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Zulaykha's companions faint when Yusuf enters the room, the scene set in a palace interior, Zulaykha is enthroned, further figures outside the palace, with lines of text in black nasta'liq script above and below, the illustration painted on a bifolio of gold-speckled paper, each side with 9ll. of black script arranged in two columns between gold and polychrome rules, catchwords, mounted
Illustration 5 3/8 x 4in. (13.7 x 10cm.) max.; folio 7 7/8 x 5in. (19.8 x 12.1cm.)
SHIRAZ, IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Zulaykha's companions faint when Yusuf enters the room, the scene set in a palace interior, Zulaykha is enthroned, further figures outside the palace, with lines of text in black nasta'liq script above and below, the illustration painted on a bifolio of gold-speckled paper, each side with 9ll. of black script arranged in two columns between gold and polychrome rules, catchwords, mounted
Illustration 5 3/8 x 4in. (13.7 x 10cm.) max.; folio 7 7/8 x 5in. (19.8 x 12.1cm.)
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