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THE PREPARATION OF A FEAST
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, five figures wearing white and gold turbans prepare a feast outdoors around a silver stream, one watches over a cauldron as another tastes his creation, silver and gold vessels, some laden with fruit, are scattered amongst the otherwise floral landscape, a rocky horizon beyond them from which a leopard watches the action, some scuffing, laid down between gold and polychrome rules, panels of nasta'liq and elegant illumination on wide blue gold-sprinkled borders
Painting 3½ x 2¼in. (8.7 x 5.6cm.); folio 10 3/8 x 6½in. (26.3 x 16.5cm.)
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