GUSHTASP DISPLAYING HIS SKILL BEFORE CAESAR

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Los 53 | GUSHTASP DISPLAYING HIS SKILL BEFORE CAESAR
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GUSHTASP DISPLAYING HIS SKILL BEFORE CAESAR

BY SIYAVUSH, SAFAVID QAZVIN, 1576 OR 1577

Illustrated folio from the Shahnama of Firdawsi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, four columns of black nasta'liq above and below flanked by 8ll. black nasta'liq written on the diagonal, ascribed to Siyavush on the upper left margin, the reverse with 22ll. of black nasta'liq arranged across four columns, flanked by 10ll. black nasta'liq on the diagonal, set within gold and polychrome rules, marginal notes

Painting 12 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄8in. (31.2 x 13.2); text panel 11 6⁄8 x 7 6⁄8in. (30 x 19.8cm.); folio 17 1⁄8 x 10 3⁄8in. (43.5 x 26.3cm.)







Literature

B. W. Robinson, "Isma'il II's Copy of the Shahnama", Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, vol. 14, 1976, p. 5, No. 43.

Robert Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting, exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh, 1977, pp. 28-30, no. 46.







Exhibited

Exposition d’art persan, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, 1912 (parent manuscript)

Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, August-September, 1977
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