KHUSRAW OUTSIDE SHIRIN'S PALACE
TIMURID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1450
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, an illustration to Firdawsi's Shahnama, Khusraw, mounted on horseback, looks up at Shirin who stands with two female attendants at the top of her palace, with lines of black nasta'liq arranged in four columns above and below, some scuffing, mounted, framed and glazed
Miniature 6 1/8 x 4½in. (15.7 x 11.6cm.); folio 8 5/8 x 6¼in. (22 x 15.9cm.)
KHUSRAW OUTSIDE SHIRIN'S PALACE
TIMURID SHIRAZ, IRAN, CIRCA 1450
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, an illustration to Firdawsi's Shahnama, Khusraw, mounted on horseback, looks up at Shirin who stands with two female attendants at the top of her palace, with lines of black nasta'liq arranged in four columns above and below, some scuffing, mounted, framed and glazed
Miniature 6 1/8 x 4½in. (15.7 x 11.6cm.); folio 8 5/8 x 6¼in. (22 x 15.9cm.)
