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SCHOOL OR MIR KALAN KHAN, FAIZABAD, INDIA, CIRCA 1780
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AN ALBUM PAGE: KHUSRAW AND SHIRIN
SCHOOL OR MIR KALAN KHAN, FAIZABAD, INDIA, CIRCA 1780
Opaque and transparent pigments heightened with gold on paper, the front depicting Khusraw surprising Shirin at her toilet, a crowd of men and hills in the background, laid down on cream card with fine gold floral borders, the reverse depicting a lion attacking a man, laid down on gold-speckled blue card with salmon-pink borders, in old wooden frame, a letter from the director of the National Museum, Stockholm, dated 3 November 1957 attached to the reverse
Painting 8 3/8 x 5 1/8in. (21.3 x 13.2cm.); folio 15 5/8 x 10 5/8in. (39.8 x 27.2cm.)
SCHOOL OR MIR KALAN KHAN, FAIZABAD, INDIA, CIRCA 1780
Opaque and transparent pigments heightened with gold on paper, the front depicting Khusraw surprising Shirin at her toilet, a crowd of men and hills in the background, laid down on cream card with fine gold floral borders, the reverse depicting a lion attacking a man, laid down on gold-speckled blue card with salmon-pink borders, in old wooden frame, a letter from the director of the National Museum, Stockholm, dated 3 November 1957 attached to the reverse
Painting 8 3/8 x 5 1/8in. (21.3 x 13.2cm.); folio 15 5/8 x 10 5/8in. (39.8 x 27.2cm.)
Exhibited
Orientaliska miniatyrer 'Oriental miniatures and manuscripts in Scandinavian collections', Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Sweden, 3 March- 31 August 1957
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