SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, LAST QUARTER 16TH CENTURY

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YUSUF AND HIS BROTHERS
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, LAST QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
Probably an illustration from a Qisas al-Anbiya', opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Yusuf with a flaming nimbus seated on a throne hears the petition of the Israelites at the court of Pharaoh, 2ll. of black nasta'liq above and below, the reverse with 20ll. of nasta'liq within gold and polychrome ruled text panel, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 8 7/8 x 6½in. (21 x 17cm.); folio 12 x 7 7/8in. (30 x 19.8cm.)

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Lot Essay

The shape of the flattened circular turbans often highlighted with a gold swirl of fabric are closely related to those depicted in a Shahnama of Firdawsi dated 1585, now in the Topkapi Saray Museum Library in Istanbul (R.1548; Lale Uluç, Turkman Governors Shiraz Artisans and Ottoman collectors: Sixteenth Century Shiraz Manuscripts, Istanbul 2006, no.288, p. 383).

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