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Vizier Buzurghmihr Showing the Game of Chess to King Khusraw Anushirwan, Painting Mounted onto an Album Folio1525-1575

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Illustrated Persian manuscript page, opaque watercolor and gold on salmon-pink paper, with a central scene of five turbaned figures around a game board beneath an arched interior, flanked by a flowering tree and a domed architectural setting
Persian manuscript painting with gold-flecked margins; four turbaned figures gathered around a backgammon board beneath a gilded arch, a flowering tree at left and tiled doorway at right; lines of Persian script above in nastaliq hand.

Unknown, Vizier Buzurghmihr Showing the Game of Chess to King Khusraw Anushirwan, Painting Mounted onto an Album Folio, 1525-1575, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Vizier Buzurghmihr Showing the Game of Chess to King Khusraw Anushirwan, Painting Mounted onto an Album Folio
Culture
Turkish
Place Made
Turkey
Date Made
1525-1575
Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions
6 1/8 x 10 in. (15.5 x 25.5 cm)
Credit Line
The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection, gift of Joan Palevsky
Accession Number
M.73.5.586
Classification
Manuscripts
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Selected Bibliography
  • Pal, Pratapaditya, ed. Islamic Art: The Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collection. Los Angeles: Museum Associates, 1973.