Chester Beatty
Musician and acrobat, by Shaykh `Abbāsī
Shaykh `Abbasi
Musician and acrobat, by Shaykh `Abbāsī. Album folio, ink, colours and gold on cream paper, tinted drawing of two performers, one playing a drum, the other doing a back flip, signed Shaykh `Abbāsī ("bahā gereft cho gardīd Shaykh `Abbāsī, 1064", between the figures), two blank spaces on right and left, within ruled borders on cream paper frame with yellow stencilled foliate design and Persian verses in reserved cartouches, all mounted on gold-flecked cream card album page, blank card verso, Isfahan, Iran, dated 1064H, 1653-1654.
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