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ISFAHAN, CIRCA 1625
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BAHRAM CHUBINA DISMOUNTED
ISFAHAN, CIRCA 1625
An illustration to the Shahnama of Firdawsi, opaque pigments on paper with nasta'liq inscriptions above and below the miniature in cloud-bands on a gold illuminated, blue ground, laid down on an album page, the outer borders decorated with fantastic gold animals in a leafy landscape on blue ground, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 4½ x 3½in. (11.5 x 8.9cm.); folio 13 x 8¼in. (33 x 20.9cm.)
ISFAHAN, CIRCA 1625
An illustration to the Shahnama of Firdawsi, opaque pigments on paper with nasta'liq inscriptions above and below the miniature in cloud-bands on a gold illuminated, blue ground, laid down on an album page, the outer borders decorated with fantastic gold animals in a leafy landscape on blue ground, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 4½ x 3½in. (11.5 x 8.9cm.); folio 13 x 8¼in. (33 x 20.9cm.)
Provenance
Hagop Kevorkian Fund, sold Sotheby's London, 21 April 1980, lot 84
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