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SAFAVID TABRIZ, NORTH WEST IRAN, CIRCA 1530-40
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TWO MINIATURES FROM A SHAHNAMA
SAFAVID TABRIZ, NORTH WEST IRAN, CIRCA 1530-40
Each from the same manuscript, gouache heightened with gold on paper, one depicting Alexander visiting a hermit in his cave, attendants play sitar, fill a ewer with water from the stream, one with a hawk on his wrist, the other depicting a unhorsing b in a mountainous landscape with attendant figures, panels with four columns of text in tiny black nasta'liq between gold rules on gold-sprinkled cream paper above and below, verso with four columns of text, one with additional page of text, remargined, extensive flaking
Miniatures 6¼ x 5¼in. (15.8 x 13.3cm.) and 5 1/8 x 5in. (13 x 12.6cm.) (2)
SAFAVID TABRIZ, NORTH WEST IRAN, CIRCA 1530-40
Each from the same manuscript, gouache heightened with gold on paper, one depicting Alexander visiting a hermit in his cave, attendants play sitar, fill a ewer with water from the stream, one with a hawk on his wrist, the other depicting a unhorsing b in a mountainous landscape with attendant figures, panels with four columns of text in tiny black nasta'liq between gold rules on gold-sprinkled cream paper above and below, verso with four columns of text, one with additional page of text, remargined, extensive flaking
Miniatures 6¼ x 5¼in. (15.8 x 13.3cm.) and 5 1/8 x 5in. (13 x 12.6cm.) (2)
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