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

1444
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Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period

(1370-1501)
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Medium
opaque watercolor, ink, gold and silver on paper
Measurements
Recto Image: 26.1 x 20.7 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.); Overall: 32.7 x 22 cm (12 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1956.10
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From the upper left two trained cheetahs, a falcon, and horses are led into the scene.

Description

The painting on the recto of this folio is the second half of a double-page frontispiece now detached from a Shah-nama manuscript (see CMA 1945.169 for the first half of the frontispiece). The scene does not illustrate a narrative from the Shah-nama, but likely represents 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.
Vertically oriented book page depicting a flat, green landscape filled with clusters of people with light skin tone wearing colorful robes, some kneeling on rugs, others waving their arms or standing in a line. In the lower right, two pairs of people carry two gold tables with bowls on top. Upper left, people with a pair of cheetahs, falcons, and horses enter the scene. Their robes are mostly blue, red, green, and light purple.

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

1444

Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501)

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