Firdawsi's "Shahnama": Gudarz, on Behalf of Kaikaus, Does Battle with the Turanians

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Firdawsi's "Shahnama": Gudarz, on Behalf of Kaikaus, Does Battle with the Turanians

Indian or Persian

late 15th century

Object Place: Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions 26.3 x 22.8 cm (10 3/8 x 9 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number15.7

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia

ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts

InscriptionsOn front: Fragments of four columns of Persian text, obscured by the image and cut down at top and bottom. On back: Four columns of Persian text, cut off at top and bottom.

ProvenanceBy 1913, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1915, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: January 7, 1915)