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SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
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A LION STALKING A STAG
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Pen and ink on paper, a lion stalks an unsuspecting antelope, laid down inside a gold and polychrome band of strapwork on wide later card margins
Illustration 1 7/8 x 8 ¼in. (4.5 x 21.2cm.); folio 8 1/8 x 11 5/8in. (20.4 x 29.7cm.)
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Pen and ink on paper, a lion stalks an unsuspecting antelope, laid down inside a gold and polychrome band of strapwork on wide later card margins
Illustration 1 7/8 x 8 ¼in. (4.5 x 21.2cm.); folio 8 1/8 x 11 5/8in. (20.4 x 29.7cm.)
Literature
Laurence Binyon, J.V.S. Wilkinson and Basil Gray, Persian Miniature Painting, London, 1971, pl.CVII-B.252.
Exhibited
Exhibition of Persian Art, Burlington House, London, January-March 1931.