King Luhrasp Ascends the Throne: a Processon Arrives at Court, recto of the left folio of a double-page composition from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025)
1560–1590
- Medium
- opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 47 x 29.7 cm (18 1/2 x 11 11/16 in.); Image: 43.9 x 26.6 cm (17 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- manuscript
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Iran, Shiraz, Safavid period (1501-1722)
About
This scene of a procession arriving at court was surely completed by the court scene itself. The subject of the frontispiece had nothing to do with the text that it accompanied, and the text has not been identified.