Bidspirit auction | ARDASHIR HEARING OF HIS ARMY'S

ARDASHIR HEARING OF HIS ARMY'S DEFEAT BY HAFTVAD ATTRIBUTED TO MU'IN MUSAVVIR, SAFAVID ISFAHAN, PERSIA, CIRCA 1660 - An illustration from the Shahnama of Firdawsi, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, with 13ll. of black nasta'liq above and below arranged in four columns, verso with 27ll. with section heading picked out in red, set within gold and polychrome rules, the margins plain, catchword, mounted. Text panel: 26.5 by 15.5 cm. Folio: 34 by 22.cm. PROVENANCE With Richard Ettinghausen (d.1979) Sotheby's London, 24 April 2013, lot 56