Lot 61
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A PLAINTIFF BEFORE A RULER
A PLAINTIFF BEFORE A RULER

TIMURID IRAN, MID 15TH CENTURY

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A PLAINTIFF BEFORE A RULER
TIMURID IRAN, MID 15TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a ruler seated on a throne listens to the pleas of the kneeling figure before him, onlookers crowd together on the right, set inside an arched interior with painted decoration of a tree with animals, laid down on card, framed and glazed
Painting 6 x 4½in. (15.3 x 11.4cm.); folio 11¼ x 8in. (28.6 x 20.3cm.)

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Lot Essay

A very similar illustration to a Khamsa of Nizami with very similar tall rounded figures dated to the mid-15th century is in the Chester Beatty Library, (Arberry, A.J.(ed.): The Chester Beatty Library. A Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts and Miniatures, Dublin 1962, Vol. I, no. 141, pl 34).

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