AN ILLUMINATED BIFOLIO
TEXT COPIED BY 'ARAB AL-KATIB AL-SHIRAZI, PROBABLY ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1033/1623 AD
AN ILLUMINATED BIFOLIO TEXT COPIED BY 'ARAB AL-KATIB AL-SHIRAZI, PROBABLY ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1033/1623 AD From the frontispiece of a manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi, gouache heightened with gold on paper, one miniature depicting an enthronement scene in which the ruler in yellow robes sits on a lavish throne surrounded by courtiers playing music, eating and offering a falcon, visiting Europeans stand in the lower left hand corner, the other miniature depicting an active hunting scene with men on horseback hunting lion and wild boar, each with borders richly decorated with arabesques and floral motifs in gold and polcyhrome, creasing, mounted, framed and glazed Miniatures 9¼ x 5 1/8in. (23.2 x 13cm.) (2)
AN ILLUMINATED BIFOLIO
TEXT COPIED BY 'ARAB AL-KATIB AL-SHIRAZI, PROBABLY ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1033/1623 AD
AN ILLUMINATED BIFOLIO TEXT COPIED BY 'ARAB AL-KATIB AL-SHIRAZI, PROBABLY ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1033/1623 AD From the frontispiece of a manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi, gouache heightened with gold on paper, one miniature depicting an enthronement scene in which the ruler in yellow robes sits on a lavish throne surrounded by courtiers playing music, eating and offering a falcon, visiting Europeans stand in the lower left hand corner, the other miniature depicting an active hunting scene with men on horseback hunting lion and wild boar, each with borders richly decorated with arabesques and floral motifs in gold and polcyhrome, creasing, mounted, framed and glazed Miniatures 9¼ x 5 1/8in. (23.2 x 13cm.) (2)
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