A scene from a historical narrative, depicting a gathering of noblemen outside the walls of a moated palace, with a party of ladies picknicking in a garden within

• gouache and gold on paper, inner margins ruled in colours and gold; verso: three couplets of Persian poetry written diagonally in fine nasta'liq, copied by Muhammad Qasim al-Hayeri, Persia, 16th Century, text within cloudbands against a gold ground decorated with stylised flowers, remnants of gold-sprinkled border
• 238,0 x153,0mm