RUSTAM KICKS ASIDE A BOULDER

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Lot 58 | RUSTAM KICKS ASIDE A BOULDER
RUSTAM KICKS ASIDE A BOULDER

TIMURID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1440-50

Illustration from the Shahnama of Firdausi, opaque pigments heightened with gold, one column of black nasta'liq above and four below, the verso with four columns of black nasta'liq with squares of diagonal text with gold floral sprays either side, two chapter headings of gold nasta'liq in clouds against a gold hatched ground, within silver and blue rules

Painting 4 5⁄8 x 4 1⁄2in. (11.9 x 11.4cm.); text panel 7 3⁄8 x 4 3⁄4in. (18.6 x 12.3cm.); folio 11 3⁄8 x 7 1⁄2in. (28.8 x 19.3cm.)







Literature

R. Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting, Exhibition catalogue, Edinburgh, 1977, p.93, no.205.







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