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King Luhrasp Ascends the Throne: a Processon Arrives at Court (recto); the Story of King Luhrasp (verso) from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)

c. 1560–90

Iran, Shiraz, Safavid period

(1501-1722)
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Medium
opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
Measurements
Sheet: 47 x 29.7 cm (18 1/2 x 11 11/16 in.); Image: 43.9 x 26.6 cm (17 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1962.24
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Description

This scene of a procession arriving at court was surely completed by the court scene itself. The subject of the frontispiece had nothing to do with the text that it accompanied, and the text has not been identified.
Vertically oriented page depicting people with light or medium-dark skin tones and two horses processing to our right in the lower half and two elephants, a few people and trees against a rocky landscape behind a gate in the upper half. Four columns of Arabic text run above and below the scene, making a rectangle that pushes up against the page's right edge with ornate, stylized, gold petal-like shapes surrounding the remaining sides.

King Luhrasp Ascends the Throne: a Processon Arrives at Court (recto); the Story of King Luhrasp (verso) from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)

c. 1560–90

Iran, Shiraz, Safavid period (1501-1722)

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