A Rare Antique Persian Safavid Miniature Painting

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A beautiful original manuscript gouache painting with gold leaf on paper of a harpist riding a highly detailed composite camel … Read more A beautiful original manuscript gouache painting with gold leaf on paper of a harpist riding a highly detailed composite camel with fantastical animal stories. The Persian hand-writing in calligraphy style contains handwritten text on both sides and the writing of the manuscript in the back of the sheet is illustrating a story from the Islamic world.
Framed in a gold-colored frame with image size 9" x 15"H.

A Persian miniature is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The Safavid Shahs ruled in times of relative stability and maintained excellent imperial painting schools. The arts flourish in times of political stability and affluence. The social conditions necessary to support a vital system of patronage were essential for the creation of miniature paintings, particularly those of the Persian courts and the Mughal dynasty. See less