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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)
1444
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The painting on the verso of this folio is the first half of a double-page frontispiece now detached from a <em>Shah-nama</em> 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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- Title: 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)
- Date Created: 1444
- Physical 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.)
- Provenance: Philipp Walter Schulz [1864-1920], Leipzig, Germany, (Mrs. Kirkor [Antoinette P. Clark] Minassian [1874-1961], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Manuscript
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.169.b
- Medium: opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
- Fun Fact: A musician plays a harp that has been mounted over a stream, painted with now tarnished silver paint.
- Department: Islamic Art
- Culture: Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: Islamic Art
- Accession Number: 1945.169.b
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