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A DOUBLE SIDED LEAF FROM AN ASTRONOMICAL MANUSCRIPT, NORTH INDIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
From a Persian manuscript, gouache heightened with gold on paper, one side with the morning star depicted as a young woman, the other side showing the constellation Draco, lines of black nasta'liq above and below - leaf 11¼ x 6¾in. (28.5 x 17.3cm.)
From a Persian manuscript, gouache heightened with gold on paper, one side with the morning star depicted as a young woman, the other side showing the constellation Draco, lines of black nasta'liq above and below - leaf 11¼ x 6¾in. (28.5 x 17.3cm.)
Exhibited
On loan to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard, Mass, 1958-2005 ref. 47
Special notice
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