AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE SHAHNAMA: ISKANDAR ON HORSEBACK

Mughal India, circa 1600-10 AD

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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE SHAHNAMA: ISKANDAR ON HORSEBACK
Mughal India, circa 1600-10 AD
Ink and wash on paper, mounted, framed and glazed
Miniature 8 ¼ x 4 ¾ in. (21 x 12 cm.)

Provenance

Christie's London, 14 October 1997, lot 20.

Lot Essay

Many leaves from this manuscript are in the Chester Beatty Library (MS17) (Linda York Leach, Mughal and other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, Vol. II, London, 1995, pp. 564-7). The note at the end of that entry cites further dispersed examples. Another is illustrated in Edwin Binney, Indian Miniature Painting from the Collection of Edwin Binney III, exhibition catalogue, Portland, Oregon, 1973-4, p. 46.

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