Recipe book for decorated paper, German, late 19th Century
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Matrakçı Nasuh (1480 - 1564) - Ottoman miniatures
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Velvet with a chintamani pattern, silk and metal lamella. Turkey, mid 16th century
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Door of the Mosque of Barquq, Cairo. Photograph by David Lewis
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Bichitr - A Scribe, Mughal India, ca. 1625
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The Heavens as they were on April 25, 1384 (CE) by the Persian polymath Mahmud ibn Yahya ibn al-Hasan al-Kashi, completed between 1410-11 CE
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Miniature pasted on an album leaf. “Portrait of Fath Ali Shah Qajar” Persia / Iran; 1226 H / 1811 CE
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Turban cover, silk embroidery on linen. Turkey, second half 16th century
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Miniature. “Four Women in a Palace Garden”, Mughal India, Bundi; mid-18th century
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Three horses galloping across a bare landscape. Painted in gouache on paper. Persia / Iran Mid 16th c
Antique Suzani, Uzbekistan, 19th century
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I believe it may be a training exercise (note noose connecting neck of one to leg of another, and bar in front of them.) Horse in center...
...would be urged along by cord connecting the closest and farthest and appears to be ready to leap obstacle.
Strongly reminds of 17th/18th c Continental horse portraiture, with those broad rumps and teeny heads: dorotheum.com/38A150421_138_


