GARDEN Resting by a stream, c. 1450

Detatched folio from Firdawsi's Shahnama held at British Museum, London, UK. 1948,1211,0.4

COMMENT:Courtiers by a stream; left half of a double-page composition, detached from an illustrated manuscript of Firdawsi's Shahnama. Seven courtiers (three men and four women) rest by a stream filled with three ducks and a fish.

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