The Art and Orchid Gallery's two-sided framed figural (suratgari) [108A] is a 19th Century hand painted Persian miniature in gouache [8B] on hand made paper emphasizing the hand written calligraphy that is exhibited in the front in outlined boxed sections along with the larger suratgari.[PMC] The back is a large window of framed, matted calligraphy, probably a poem, on the rear of the same gouache painting.
This suratgari subject was very common for Persian miniatures...... Royal Magnific ...click for details
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