TWO SAFAVID MINIATURES FROM AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERSIAN POETRY
SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1560-80
TWO SAFAVID MINIATURES FROM AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERSIAN POETRY SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1560-80 Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the first folio from the frontispiece of the manuscript, depicting men playing games and discoursing on a terrace, a garden in the background, bordered with finely illuminated medallions, each giving the titles of various Persian diwans , the reverse in fact the first folio of text lavishly illuminated, the second miniature depicting a banquet and men entertained by a dancer, women watching from balconies, with illuminated margins, the reverse with 16ll. of black nasta'liq script between illuminated cartouches and colophon signed Hidayat Allah al-Shirazi, each in upright gilt leather frames, some flaking, otherwise good condition, together with two Safavid revival miniatures painted on 15th or 16th century folios Miniature 6¼ x 3 5/8in. (15.7 x 9.3cm.); folio 10 5/8 x 5 7/8in. (26.8 x 14.8cm.) (4)
TWO SAFAVID MINIATURES FROM AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERSIAN POETRY
SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1560-80
TWO SAFAVID MINIATURES FROM AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERSIAN POETRY SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1560-80 Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the first folio from the frontispiece of the manuscript, depicting men playing games and discoursing on a terrace, a garden in the background, bordered with finely illuminated medallions, each giving the titles of various Persian diwans , the reverse in fact the first folio of text lavishly illuminated, the second miniature depicting a banquet and men entertained by a dancer, women watching from balconies, with illuminated margins, the reverse with 16ll. of black nasta'liq script between illuminated cartouches and colophon signed Hidayat Allah al-Shirazi, each in upright gilt leather frames, some flaking, otherwise good condition, together with two Safavid revival miniatures painted on 15th or 16th century folios Miniature 6¼ x 3 5/8in. (15.7 x 9.3cm.); folio 10 5/8 x 5 7/8in. (26.8 x 14.8cm.) (4)
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