A GARDEN PARTY
SHIRAZ, IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a jovial garden party with figures in brightly coloured robes preparing food, playing music, sharing food and embracing, around them a dense foliate landscape with a stream running through, between minor gold and white rules, three sides of the border with fine gold and polychrome illumination, mounted, framed and glazed
Miniature 6 5/8 x 4 3/8in. (16.9 x 11.3cm.); folio 8½ x 5¾in. (21.4 x 14.5cm.)
A GARDEN PARTY
SHIRAZ, IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a jovial garden party with figures in brightly coloured robes preparing food, playing music, sharing food and embracing, around them a dense foliate landscape with a stream running through, between minor gold and white rules, three sides of the border with fine gold and polychrome illumination, mounted, framed and glazed
Miniature 6 5/8 x 4 3/8in. (16.9 x 11.3cm.); folio 8½ x 5¾in. (21.4 x 14.5cm.)
