Lot 267 AN ILLUMINATED AND ILLUSTRATED SHAHNAMEH PAGE, PERSIA SAFAVID PERIOD, 16TH CENTURY
Reference: ART3008369
A manuscript page from Ferdawsi’s Shahnameh depicts a royal audience in which Kay Khosrow sits enthroned on a raised platform while a Turanian envoy is brought before him. The ruler is dressed in a brightly colored robe and holds a letter in his hand. The text is arranged in four columns in nasta‘liq script, with the painting executed in opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper. 31 × 19 cm.