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SAFAVID SHIRAZ, 16TH CENTURY 
An illustrated bifolium from a Shahnama of Firdawsi, gouache heightened with gold on paper, right-hand folio with Luhrasp seated receiving homage with Rustam in attendance, surrounded by musicians and dancers, left-hand folio with courtiers carrying gifts, both set between four columns of verses of nasta'liq in white clouds on gold ground and margins of interlocking floral palmettes, verso of each folio with four columns of elegant nasta'liq, mounted, framed and glazed
Miniatures 10¼ x 5¾in. (26 x 14.7cm.); folios 14¾ x 8 7/8in. (37.5 x 22.7cm.)