KHUSRAW PARVIZ AND BAHRAM CHUBINA PARLEY ON THE EVE OF BATTLE

Lot 51
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Lot 51 | KHUSRAW PARVIZ AND BAHRAM CHUBINA PARLEY ON THE EVE OF BATTLE
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£ 4 000 – 6 000
KHUSRAW PARVIZ AND BAHRAM CHUBINA PARLEY ON THE EVE OF BATTLE

ATTRIBUTED TO MU'IN MUSAVVIR, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, CIRCA 1660

An illustration from the Shahnama of Firdawsi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, with 17ll. of black nasta'liq above and below arranged in four columns, verso with 27ll. of black nasta'liq with section heading picked out in red, set within gold and polychrome rules, the margins plain, catchword

Text panel 10 5⁄8 x 6 ¼in. (26.9 x 16cm.); folio 13 5⁄8 x 8 ¾in. (34.6 x 22.1cm.)





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With Richard Ettinghausen (d.1979),

Sotheby's London, 25 April 2012, lot 480
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