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SAFAVID IRAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
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A PRINCE MEETS AN OLD WOMAN AT A BRIDGE
SAFAVID IRAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
A folio from an illustrated manuscript, gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicting a prince on horseback, stopped at a bridge by an elder woman veiled with white, three turbanned figures watching the scene, a silver river flows across the rocky landscape, with two panels of two lines of black nasta'liq above and below, laid down on cardboard with gold floral illuminated margins between gold-speckled borders, mounted, faces repainted, some flaking
Painting 8 1/8 x 4 5/8in. (20.5 x 11.8cm.); folio 12 7/8 x 8 1/8in. (32.6 x 20.5cm.)
SAFAVID IRAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
A folio from an illustrated manuscript, gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicting a prince on horseback, stopped at a bridge by an elder woman veiled with white, three turbanned figures watching the scene, a silver river flows across the rocky landscape, with two panels of two lines of black nasta'liq above and below, laid down on cardboard with gold floral illuminated margins between gold-speckled borders, mounted, faces repainted, some flaking
Painting 8 1/8 x 4 5/8in. (20.5 x 11.8cm.); folio 12 7/8 x 8 1/8in. (32.6 x 20.5cm.)