RUSTAM DEFEATS PULAVAND

SAFAVID SHIRAZ, CIRCA 1575-85

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RUSTAM DEFEATS PULAVAND
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, CIRCA 1575-85
An illustration from the Shahnama of Firdawsi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Rustam stands over the body of Pulavand who has fallen from his horse, various figures look on, 8ll. of black nasta'liq above and 2ll. below each arranged in four columns with double gold intercolumnar rule, laid down between gold, blue and black rules on blue margins with gold floral illumination, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 4 3/8 x 5 7/8in. (11 x 15 cm.); folio 9 7/8 x 5 7/8in. (25 x 15cm.)

Provenance

Formerly E.M. Sarkies collection sale, American Art Association, New York, 9-11 May 1923

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Lot Essay

A closely related depiction of Rustam in a similar landscape dotted with flowering plants illustrates a Shahnama manuscript in the Topkapi Palace Library and is dated AH 993/1585-86 AD,(Inv. R.1548; Lale Uluç, Turkoman Governors, Shiraz Artists and Ottoman Collectors: Sixteenth century Shiraz manuscripts, Istanbul, 2006, p.231, fig.174).

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