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Scene from the Shahnameh
gouache heightened with gold on paper, Rustem, sitting astride his horse in a cave, shoots an arrow at a warrior behind a tree, lines of Persian black nasta'liq in four columns above, gold margins between black rules, blue outer rule, framed and glazed, (some flaking and rubbind, possible small areas of repainting), Persia, 16th century - 13 x 8½in. (33 x 21.6cm.)
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gouache heightened with gold on paper, Rustem, sitting astride his horse in a cave, shoots an arrow at a warrior behind a tree, lines of Persian black nasta'liq in four columns above, gold margins between black rules, blue outer rule, framed and glazed, (some flaking and rubbind, possible small areas of repainting), Persia, 16th century - 13 x 8½in. (33 x 21.6cm.)
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