Detached album folio; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: Sultan Murad and Sultan Danyal on a Picnic; verso: calligraphic panel containing verses from the Gulistan by Sa'di. Border: The recto is set in gold and black rulings surrounded by an inner frame of gold floral scroll, a blue tendril scroll and a gold- red outer frame, mounted on a gold-sprinkled paperboard. The verso is set in gold, blue and white rulings in a border of gold floral scroll, a dark blue gold-sprinkled inner frame, and a gold outer frame mounted on a gold-sprinkled paperboard. stamps: front: blue-edged, 315; text: page from preface to Sa`di's Gulistân (Furûghî edn., p. 32f). Arthur M. Sackler Collection
- Collection
- Google Cultural Institute Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Date published
- ca. 1900
- Dates
- ca. 1900
- Format
- Opaque watercolor and ink on paper
- Pages
- H x W (overall): 47.9 x 32.2 cm (18 7/8 x 12 11/16 in)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- S1986.427
- Rights
- Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/69f670e88a868936e25d960397130e5d
