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Apr 28, 2017
Apr 28, 2017
Apr 28, 2017

Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025) (verso)

Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025) (verso)

1444

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Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period

(1370-1501)

Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper

Image: 26.3 x 20.7 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.); Overall: 32.5 x 22.1 cm (12 13/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.169.b

Location

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A musician plays a harp that has been mounted over a stream, painted with now tarnished silver paint.

Description

The painting on the verso of this folio is the first half of a double-page frontispiece now detached from a Shah-nama manuscript (see CMA 1956.10 for the second half of the frontispiece). The scene does not illustrate a narrative from the Shah-nama, but is likely a representation of the courtly audience for whose entertainment the manuscript was created. The date and style of the painting indicate that it was made during the reign of the Timurid dynasty in Shiraz, Iran.

See also
Collection: 
Islamic Art
Department: 
Islamic Art
Type of artwork: 
Manuscript
Medium: 
Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
Credit line: 
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

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