An illustrated and illuminated album page: Preparations for a Feast in a Garden, Persia, Shiraz, Safavid, mid-16th century

gouache heightened with gold on paper, with polychrome and gold illuminated borders, the outline of the borders added later, laid down on an album page, with gold-speckled green margins

Painting: 13.5 by 7.2cm; leaf: 25.8 by 15.9cm.

Condition Report:
Laid down on card, the upper edge of the leaf slightly scuffed, the margins with a couple of pinholes, pencil marks and areas of discolouration, the lower margin with losses to paper and a museum inventory number added in pencil, the blue outline of the borders added later, the borders and image with small losses to pigments and small scattered areas of discolouration but colours are strong, overall fair condition, the reverse with inventory numbers and later inscriptions in pencil and ink, as viewed.

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