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A Meeting of Poets, folio from a Manuscript of the Shahnama
A Meeting of Poets, folio from a Manuscript of the Shahnama

A Meeting of Poets, folio from a Manuscript of the Shahnama

Former TitleFirdausi with Poets at the Court of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna
Attributed to Balchand and Payag (Indian, active 1596 - 1640)
Dateca. 1610
MediumColors on paper
DimensionsOverall: 13 5/8 × 8 13/16 inches (34.61 × 22.38 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number54-81
Inscribedbottom, center of outer border: "Ascribed to Balchand and Payag"
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Exhibition History

No exhibition history known at this time.

Provenance

With Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, by 1954;

Purchased from Heeramaneck Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1954.

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