A Ruler Recieving Courtiers in Durbar

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the Emperor Jahangir sits cross-legged on a gold bed beneath a canopy, receiving a petition by a courtier, further courtiers and attendants stand around, inscription along upper border laid down between gold rules and gold illuminated blue borders on gold-floral cream margins, the reverse with 6ll. nasta'liq , signed Ahmad al-Husayni al-Mashhadi, areas of repainting

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