ISKANDAR SUMMONS HIS COMMANDERS PROBABLY SAFAVID TABRIZ OR QAZVIN, IRAN...

ISKANDAR SUMMONS HIS COMMANDERS
PROBABLY SAFAVID TABRIZ OR QAZVIN, IRAN, THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY
An illustration from the Sharafnama of Nizami's Khamsa, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within gold, red and black rules, an inner border of sixteen rectangular cartouches containing black nasta'liq reserved in clouds against gold, a further larger rectangular cartouche of black nasta'liq above and below, gold-sprinkled pink outer border, the buff margins decorated with a gold star-lattice, laid down onto card, the verso plain, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 6 ¾ x 5 1⁄8in. (17.2 x 13cm.); folio 12 7⁄8 x 8 7⁄8in. (32.8 x 23cm.)

Provenance
New York by 1971