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SHIRAZ, SAFAVID IRAN, MID 16TH CENTURY
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TWO FOLIOS FROM A PERSIAN EPIC
SHIRAZ, SAFAVID IRAN, MID 16TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the first with an enthroned ruler giving an audience, the second with two noblemen, one mounted, the other on foot, in a landscape, the reverse with text in black nasta'liq script
Folio 10 ½ x 6 ¼in. ( 26.8 x 15.9cm.); paintings 4 1/8 x 3 ½in. (10.5 x 9cm.) and 4 3/8 x 3 5/8in. (11 x 9.3cm.)
SHIRAZ, SAFAVID IRAN, MID 16TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the first with an enthroned ruler giving an audience, the second with two noblemen, one mounted, the other on foot, in a landscape, the reverse with text in black nasta'liq script
Folio 10 ½ x 6 ¼in. ( 26.8 x 15.9cm.); paintings 4 1/8 x 3 ½in. (10.5 x 9cm.) and 4 3/8 x 3 5/8in. (11 x 9.3cm.)
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