A LATE TIMURID MURAQQA' ALBUM PAGE
North Western Iran, 15th - 16th century

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the recto with a horizontal composition depicting a battle scene, the purple-dressed rider on the white horse hit by an arrow and falling off from his steed, his orange-dressed companion ready to shoot his arrow towards the enemy on his black steed, the scene set against a rocky background with the typical Timurid purple mountains, the verso with 11ll. of black ink nasta'liq script of poetic quatrains quoting Sonnets 331 and 354 of Hafez, within orange, gold and blue rules, pasted onto a muraqqa' album border with golden flowers, the loose folio mounted on a purple cardboard frame, 17.3cm x 9.5cm excluding the frame.

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