Leaf from a Sultanate 'Jainesque' Shahnama: Kai Khusrau Answring to Zal

Middle India, circa 1450 A.D.

Gouache on paper

319 by 249 mm. approximately

The seated king flanked by parasols with two attendants, one waving a fly-whisk, receiving six princes, with a rectangular painted panel interrupting four columns of naskh script, within thick double rules in red, the panels with double rules in red and one in blue

Provenance

London, early 1980s

Literature

A full description of this manuscript was published by the Rietberg Museum in 1988, see B.N. Goswamy, A Jainesque Sultanate Shahnama and the Context of Pre-Mughal Painting in India, Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1988