[MINIATURE PAINTING].
Leaf from an illuminated manuscript,
probably 'Sultan Sanjar and the Old Woman' from Nizami's Khamsa.
Stock Code
103581
Safavid Persia, Qazvin (ý)1620
£3,500
Description
single leaf, ink and gouache on paper, leaf laid on to thick card, total leaf 325 by 200 mm (miniature 202 by 120 mm); two text blocks, each containing two lines verse in black nasa'liq script, some small sections of overpainting, some small sections of darkening and light finger-soiling, framed within multiple gilt rulings, wider margins painted in gilt foliate decorations, reverse blank, unframed.
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