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Court scene
gouache heightened with gold on paper, a prince and princess converse in an interior, while courtiers and female attendants approach outside and a traveller enters the courtyard from the garden beyond, lines of black nasta'liq in four columns above and below, orange, green and gold margins between black rules, blue outer rule, verso with similar calligraphy and margins, mounted, framed and glazed, (light wear), Shiraz, mid-17th century - 10 x 6¾in. (25.4 x 17cm.)
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gouache heightened with gold on paper, a prince and princess converse in an interior, while courtiers and female attendants approach outside and a traveller enters the courtyard from the garden beyond, lines of black nasta'liq in four columns above and below, orange, green and gold margins between black rules, blue outer rule, verso with similar calligraphy and margins, mounted, framed and glazed, (light wear), Shiraz, mid-17th century - 10 x 6¾in. (25.4 x 17cm.)
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