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Lot 173

A detached illustrated folio from a Khamsa of Nizami : Iskandar and the sages, Timurid central...

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Lot 173

A detached illustrated folio from a Khamsa of Nizami : Iskandar and the sages, 
Timurid central...

Price Realised: £1,181

Estimate: £400 - £600

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Lot 173

Description

A detached illustrated folio from a Khamsa of Nizami : Iskandar and the sages, 
Timurid central Asia, 16th century, 

Opaque pigments and ink on paper, enthroned surrounded by attendants and listening to a kneeling sage, another standing near a rivulet, four columns of black nasta'liq script within thin gold borders ruled in black above and below, the reverse similarly laid out, 

24.7 x 16.3cm.

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