A folio from The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp is going up in auction in October, presenting a “great opportunity for collectors” to add this masterwork to their acquisitions
A folio from the Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh will go on auction at Sotheby’s London, with an estimated price tag of four to six million GBP .
The folio that will be offered up for sale was created for Shah Tahmasp of Persia in the 16th century, illustrated by the master artists of the time over the course of two decades. According to Sotheby’s, it “depicts the great hero Rustam recovering his horse Rakhsh – named the Persian word for lightning – two of the main figures over the course of the tale. “
Carter believes the rare appearance of a folio from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp in another auction is a “great opportunity for collectors in this field and beyond.”the Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh was the great version of the manuscript because ““it involved such an enormous sense of production, using the greatest artists in the royal atelier”.
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