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10 octobre 2024

Royal Reception in a Landscape, 1444, Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501)

Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025) (verso), 1444, Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501). Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper. Image: 26.3 x 20.7 cm; Overall: 32.5 x 22.1 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.169.b.

 

 

A musician plays a harp that has been mounted over a stream, painted with now tarnished silver paint.
The painting on the verso of this folio is the first half of a double-page frontispiece now detached from a Shah-nama manuscript (see CMA 1956.10 for the second half of the frontispiece). The scene does not illustrate a narrative from the Shah-nama, but is likely a representation of 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.
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