ARDASHIR HEARING OF HIS ARMY'S DEFEAT BY HAFTVAD ATTRIBUTED T...

ARDASHIR HEARING OF HIS ARMY'S DEFEAT BY HAFTVAD
ATTRIBUTED TO MU'IN MUSAVVIR, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, CIRCA 1660
An illustration from the Shahnama of Firdawsi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, with 13ll. of black nasta'liq above and below arranged in four columns, verso with 27ll. with section heading picked out in red, set within gold and polychrome rules, the margins plain, catchword, mounted
Text panel 10 5⁄8in. x 6 1⁄8in. (26.9 x 15.7cm.); folio 13 ½ x 8 ¾in. (34.3 x 22.2cm.)

Provenance
With Richard Ettinghausen (d.1979),
Sotheby's London, 24 April 2013, lot 56