Lot 269 SHAMA'ILNAMEH, PERSIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Miniature painted in gouache and gold on paper, Arabic and Persian text in gold inside illuminated cartridges, representing Imam Ali, framed by four-lobed cartridges with very fine decorations of flowered scrolls and spiral arabesques, below three columns of cartouches enclosing characteristics of the prophet in Arabic and Persian. surrounded by three borders containing cartouches enclosing a verse of the Quran, surah Al-Baqraa The Throne Verse (Arabic: آيَة الْكُرْسِي, ʾāyat al-kursī) is the 255th verse. -Quran 24 surah Al-Nur v.35 and v. 36 -Prasie of Al al-Bayt.
Framed
Folio: 29 by 44 cm.