MUSHTARI AND BADR ARE BROUGHT TO THE CASTLE OF THE ROBBERS
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MUSHTARI AND BADR ARE BROUGHT TO THE CASTLE OF THE ROBBERS

SAFAVID STYLE, IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, ON OLD MANUSCRIPT LEAF

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MUSHTARI AND BADR ARE BROUGHT TO THE CASTLE OF THE ROBBERS
SAFAVID STYLE, IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, ON OLD MANUSCRIPT LEAF
From 'Assar Tabrizi's Mihr-u Mushtari gouache heightened with gold on paper, two columns of black nasta'liq couplets above and below, reverse with two columns of nasta'liq, gold and black marginal rules, trimmed, mounted, framed and glazed, collection label on reverse of frame
Leaf 9 ¾ x 6 ¼ in. (24.8 x 15.9 cm.)

Lucy Truman Aldrich, Providence, Rhode Island.
Acquired from the estate of the above September 1955.