Lot Essay
See note to lot 140.
SHIRAZ, 1560-70 AD
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Illustration from the Shahnameh
Shiraz, 1560-70 AD
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, with Rustem seated in a tent on a gold chair, surrounded by other men seated on a carpet eating apples and drinking, lines of black nasta'liq above and below arranged into four columns outlined with gold, light smudging and flaking, mounted framed and glazed
Miniature 9½ x 7in.(24 x 18cm.)
Shiraz, 1560-70 AD
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, with Rustem seated in a tent on a gold chair, surrounded by other men seated on a carpet eating apples and drinking, lines of black nasta'liq above and below arranged into four columns outlined with gold, light smudging and flaking, mounted framed and glazed
Miniature 9½ x 7in.(24 x 18cm.)