A FINE SAFAVID MINIATURE DEPICTING AN ENTRONED RULER Safavid Iran,...
A FINE SAFAVID MINIATURE DEPICTING AN ENTRONED RULER
Safavid Iran, 16th-17th century
Opaque pigments, pencil, ink and gold on paper, loose folio depicting an enthronement scene, with a ruler seated beneath a regal canopy decorated with arabesques, within an elaborate Safavid-style architectural setting rendered in multiple perspectives, beneath a cobalt-blue, gold-starred sky, surrounded by courtiers and attendants, cypress trees and blossoming prunus rising among golden hills in the background, the scene framed by double illuminated borders, the inner one characteristic of Safavid manuscript openings, and the outer one decorated with scrolling gilt branches, probably a later addition.
Image 9.7cm x 13cm; total 37cm x 24cm
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A FINE SAFAVID MINIATURE DEPICTING AN ENTRONED RULER
Safavid Iran, 16th-17th century
Opaque pigments, pencil, ink and gold on paper, loose folio depicting an enthronement scene, with a ruler seated beneath a regal canopy decorated with arabesques, within an elaborate Safavid-style architectural setting rendered in multiple perspectives, beneath a cobalt-blue, gold-starred sky, surrounded by courtiers and attendants, cypress trees and blossoming prunus rising among golden hills in the background, the scene framed by double illuminated borders, the inner one characteristic of Safavid manuscript openings, and the outer one decorated with scrolling gilt branches, probably a later addition.
Image 9.7cm x 13cm; total 37cm x 24cm
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