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SAFAVID SHIRAZ, CIRCA 1530
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A FIERCE BATTLE
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, CIRCA 1530
From a Shahnama of Firdawsi, gouache heightened with gold on paper, a fierce battle underway with soldiers mounted on horses, camels and elephants, some blowing trumpets, others heavily armed with bows and arrows or swords, at the centre of the composition Rustam riding Rakhsh slays his enemy, the reverse with four columns of 25ll. of neat black nasta'liq script with double gold intercolumnar rule and heading in red, mounted
Miniature 8 3/8 x 6 5/8in. (21.1 x 17.1cm.); folio 11 7/8 x 10 1/8in. (30.1 x 25.6cm.)
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, CIRCA 1530
From a Shahnama of Firdawsi, gouache heightened with gold on paper, a fierce battle underway with soldiers mounted on horses, camels and elephants, some blowing trumpets, others heavily armed with bows and arrows or swords, at the centre of the composition Rustam riding Rakhsh slays his enemy, the reverse with four columns of 25ll. of neat black nasta'liq script with double gold intercolumnar rule and heading in red, mounted
Miniature 8 3/8 x 6 5/8in. (21.1 x 17.1cm.); folio 11 7/8 x 10 1/8in. (30.1 x 25.6cm.)
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