Property from An Important Private Collection A composite album page, Safavid Iran, 17th century and later, Black ink, gold and polychrome pigments on paper, two youths watching and acrobat and a group of musicians in a garden, within gold and polychrome rules, two panels with nasta'liq couplets above to either side, one line of bold nasta'liq script above and below, all interspersed with illuminated panels and within polychrome rules, laid on card, the wide borders with birds within elegant scrolling floral tendrils, partially mounted 34 x 21cm.

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