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Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d. 1209); Couple with attendants; verso: text: Chapter thirty-one: discrediting overindulgence in eating, part from Khusraw va Shirin
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- circa 1513
- Period
- Safavid period
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (overall): 23.5 x 16 cm (9 1/4 x 6 5/16 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Accession Number
- F1967.8
- Topic
- music
- Safavid period (1501 - 1722)
- lovers
- Afghanistan
- Arts of the Islamic World
- attendant
- WWII-era provenance
- Origin
- Herat, Afghanistan
- Restrictions & Rights
- Copyright with museum
