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Royal Reception in a Landscape, left folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Royal Reception in a Landscape, left folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025)

1444

Opaque watercolor, ink, gold, and silver on paper
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The painting on this folio is the first half of a double-page frontispiece now detached from a <em>Shahnama </em>(Book of Kings) manuscript. CMA 1956.10 is the left half of the frontispiece.

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