PREPARATION FOR A FEAST
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, forming the right half of a frontispiece, servants prepare food and musicians play drums and pipes in a landscape with large curved trees with blossoms, borders with interlocking palmettes on a ground of flowering vines, gold-speckled margins, areas of repainting
Folio 9¼ x 6in. (23.3 x 15.3cm.)