Arts of the Islamic World & India

Arts of the Islamic World & India

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 553. An illustrated and illuminated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnameh: Zahhak enthroned watching the sawing of Jamshid, Persia, Qazwin, Safavid, last quarter 16th century.

An illustrated and illuminated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnameh: Zahhak enthroned watching the sawing of Jamshid, Persia, Qazwin, Safavid, last quarter 16th century

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April 30, 03:48 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

gouache and ink heightened with gold on paper, 2 lines to the page written in nasta'liq in black ink, verso with 25 lines of black nasta'liq

painting: 29.7 by 18.5cm. max.

leaf: 35.5 by 24.2cm.

Private Collection, Denmark, 1960s, thence by descent

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