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Three miniatures from an Iskandernameh
gouache heightened with gold and Persian manuscript on paper, panels of minute black nasta'liq above and below, showing: Bahman killing two lions before a throne, Iskander and the prophet, Khisr, talking in a cave, and an elderly man brought before the king, each with a band of applied illumination above and below, all mounted, framed and glazed, (some rubbing, flaking and creasing), Timurid Persia, 15th century - 16.2 x 9.5cm.
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gouache heightened with gold and Persian manuscript on paper, panels of minute black nasta'liq above and below, showing: Bahman killing two lions before a throne, Iskander and the prophet, Khisr, talking in a cave, and an elderly man brought before the king, each with a band of applied illumination above and below, all mounted, framed and glazed, (some rubbing, flaking and creasing), Timurid Persia, 15th century - 16.2 x 9.5cm.
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