Lot 223 A PETITION PRESENTED BEFORE A KING, PERSIA OR CENTRAL ASIA, TIMURID 15TH CENTURY

A Persian manuscript on paper, depicting a courtly audience. A ruler sits enthroned within an architectural interior while attendants present a petition before him, observed by courtiers standing nearby. The figures are rendered with delicate features and dressed in tall white turbans adorned with plumes, characteristic of Timurid courtly fashion. The composition, framed by blocks of elegant nastaʿlīq script above and below, reflects the refined narrative style of fifteenth-century Persian manuscript painting associated with the Timurid artistic centers of Persia and Central Asia 26,5 by 21 cm.