SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1530
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A BATTLE WITH THE GREEN DIV
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1530
From a manuscript of Firdawsi's Shahnama, gouache heightened with gold on paper, the hero battles the green div in a dark cave, from behind the cover of surrounding rocks a number of onlookers, some mounted on horses and camels, watch the fight, in rocky purple landscape, with four columns of black nasta'liq above and below, mounted, framed and glazed
Folio 9¾ x 7¼in. (25 x 18.7cm.)
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1530
From a manuscript of Firdawsi's Shahnama, gouache heightened with gold on paper, the hero battles the green div in a dark cave, from behind the cover of surrounding rocks a number of onlookers, some mounted on horses and camels, watch the fight, in rocky purple landscape, with four columns of black nasta'liq above and below, mounted, framed and glazed
Folio 9¾ x 7¼in. (25 x 18.7cm.)
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William Robinson
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