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KHUSRAW KILLS THE LION OUTSIDE SHIRIN'S TENT
KHUSRAW KILLS THE LION OUTSIDE SHIRIN'S TENT
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KHUSRAW KILLS THE LION OUTSIDE SHIRIN'S TENT

SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1560

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KHUSRAW KILLS THE LION OUTSIDE SHIRIN'S TENT
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1560
From a Khamsa of Nizami, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, 2ll. black nasta'liq in four columns with double green intercolumnar rule above and below, the verso with 19ll. black nasta'liq similarly arranged, one heading in white naskh on gold illuminated ground, within gold and polychrome rules
Text panel 7 5⁄8 x 6 1⁄8in. (19.4 x 15.4cm.); folio 10 ¼ x 7 3⁄8in. (26 x 18.9cm.)

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The artist of this painting is likely to have also completed illustrations for several other important mid-16th century manuscripts. The two most notable are a Khamsa of Nizami in the Freer Gallery of Art dated 1548 (inv. 08.199) and a Shahnama dated to 1560 in the Art and History Trust Collection (Abolala Soudavar, Art of the Persian Courts, New York, 1992, no.98c, pp.247-48). Both of these are attributed to Shiraz. The finesse and details of the artist, called 'Artist A' by Soudavar, suggest that he was most likely a painter associated with the Royal atelier.

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