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SAFAVID IRAN, PROBABLY SHIRAZ, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
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FARHAD CARRYING SHIRIN AND HER HORSE
SAFAVID IRAN, PROBABLY SHIRAZ, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, painted in a charming and idiosyncratic style, Farhad carries Shirin mounted atop a horse through a rocky landscape with various figures looking on, with two lines of nasta'liq in four columns above and below, reserved in clouds over a gold ground with polychrome foliage within blue, gold, green, orange and turquoise margins, the reverse with illuminated headings and 20ll. of nasta'liq in four columns, generally in good condition
Folio 9¾ x 6 5/8in. (24.8 x 17cm.); miniature 7½ x 4¾in. (18.6 x 12cm.)
SAFAVID IRAN, PROBABLY SHIRAZ, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, painted in a charming and idiosyncratic style, Farhad carries Shirin mounted atop a horse through a rocky landscape with various figures looking on, with two lines of nasta'liq in four columns above and below, reserved in clouds over a gold ground with polychrome foliage within blue, gold, green, orange and turquoise margins, the reverse with illuminated headings and 20ll. of nasta'liq in four columns, generally in good condition
Folio 9¾ x 6 5/8in. (24.8 x 17cm.); miniature 7½ x 4¾in. (18.6 x 12cm.)
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