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Materials:

ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper

Size Notes:

folio; Miniature: 29.7 by 28.5cm.

Description:

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Exhibited:

Exposition d'art Islamique, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, 1903 A King's Book of Kings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972 Wonders of the Age, The British Library, London; The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; and The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1979-80.

Literature:

Welch 1972, pl.121-122, pp.120-123 Welch 1979, no.14, pp.62-63 Dickson and Welch 1981, vol.I, figs. 152-154, pp. 108-109, pl.13, vol. II, pl.29 Agnew 1981, p.182 Kevorkian and Sicre 1983, pp.154-5 Davis 2005, vol.1, pp.64, 70, 71, 84, 299

Provenance:

Commissioned by the Safavid Emperor Shah Isma`il, circa 1522 Completed under the patronage of his son Shah Tahmasp at the royal atelier, Tabriz, circa 1525-1540 Presented in 1568 by Shah Tahmasp to the Ottoman Sultan Selim II In the collection of Baron Edmund de Rothschild, Paris, 1903-1934 By Descent to Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Paris, 1934-1957 His estate 1957-1959 Arthur A. Houghton Jr., USA, 1959-1977 Agnews, London, 1977.