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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)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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)

Unknown artist

1444

Type: Manuscript
Medium: opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
Dimensions: Image: 26.3 x 20.7 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.); Overall: 32.5 x 22.1 cm (12 13/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Culture: Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501)
Credit: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

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