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Zal and Rudaba in a Palace, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

Timurid dynasty (ca. 1370–1507), 1480/90
Opaque watercolors and ink on paper
25.4 × 11.4 cm (10 × 4.5 in)

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