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NORTH INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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SHAH 'ABBAS OF PERSIA RECEIVING THE MUGHAL AMBASSADOR KHAN 'ALAM IN 1618
NORTH INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Shah 'Abbas sits to the right wearing his distinctive hat and offering a gold dish to the Mughal ambassador Khan 'Alam, two of his ministers sit to his left and two pages stand behind him, the Mughal party faces them with Khan 'Alam wearing an elaborate turban with sarpech, musicians and a crowd of courtiers and pages in the background, some holding horses, the scene takes place in a bare landscape on which grow two trees, a rubbed Persian identification in black nasta'liq script along the bottom, between thin gold borders, laid down between red margins, areas of rubbing and flaking, mounted, framed and glazed
9¼ x 6¼in. (23.5 x 15.8cm.)
NORTH INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Shah 'Abbas sits to the right wearing his distinctive hat and offering a gold dish to the Mughal ambassador Khan 'Alam, two of his ministers sit to his left and two pages stand behind him, the Mughal party faces them with Khan 'Alam wearing an elaborate turban with sarpech, musicians and a crowd of courtiers and pages in the background, some holding horses, the scene takes place in a bare landscape on which grow two trees, a rubbed Persian identification in black nasta'liq script along the bottom, between thin gold borders, laid down between red margins, areas of rubbing and flaking, mounted, framed and glazed
9¼ x 6¼in. (23.5 x 15.8cm.)