SULTANATE INDIA, 15TH CENTURY

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KHUSRAW AT THE EDGE OF A SPRING
SULTANATE INDIA, 15TH CENTURY
An illustration from the Khusrawnama of 'Attar, opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, 7ll. black naskh arranged in one and two columns below, within gold and blue rules, rubbed seal impression in the upper margin, verso with 19ll. black naskh arranged in two columns within gold and black rules, additional folio of text on both sides similarly arranged
Painting 5 ¼ x 4 5⁄8 in. (13.2 x 11.8cm.); text panel 8 ½ x 4 ¾in. (21.8 x 12cm.); folio 11 x 6 3⁄8 in. (28 x 16.7m.)

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Lot Essay

This folio comes comes from a dispersed compendium of poetry of 'Attar Nishapuri (d. circa 1221) which contains both the Khusrawnama and the Asrarnama. Likely dispersed in the first half of the 20th century, three folios were sold at Sotheby's, London, 12 December 1972, lot 175-7. Further folios have since been sold in these rooms 16 October 1980, lot 55; 13 April 2010, lot 70; 6 October 2011, lot 118; 27 April 2023, lots 58 and 59 and 1 May 2025, lots 60 and 61.

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