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CENTRAL INDIA, DECCAN, PROBABLY GOLCONDA, MID 16TH CENTURY
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AN ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM THE SHAHNAMA OF FERDOSI: RUSTAM KILLS THE WHITE ELEPHANT
CENTRAL INDIA, DECCAN, PROBABLY GOLCONDA, Mid 16th century
The young Rustam wearing his leopard skin robe striking the white elephant with a mace of his grandfather, a victim from the elephant's rampage lying next to the tree and another at the entrance to the palace, the rest of the court including his father wearing a golden crown staring in amazement, with Persian verses in nasta'liq above and below divided into four columns, surrounded by red and gold ruled margins with a page number above
Opaque pigments on wasli heightened with gold
8½ x 6 1/8 in. (21.5 x 15.6 cm.), painting
10 5/8 x 7¼ in. (27 x 18.4 cm.), folio
CENTRAL INDIA, DECCAN, PROBABLY GOLCONDA, Mid 16th century
The young Rustam wearing his leopard skin robe striking the white elephant with a mace of his grandfather, a victim from the elephant's rampage lying next to the tree and another at the entrance to the palace, the rest of the court including his father wearing a golden crown staring in amazement, with Persian verses in nasta'liq above and below divided into four columns, surrounded by red and gold ruled margins with a page number above
Opaque pigments on wasli heightened with gold
8½ x 6 1/8 in. (21.5 x 15.6 cm.), painting
10 5/8 x 7¼ in. (27 x 18.4 cm.), folio
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, late 1960s