Firdawsi's "Shahnama": Battle Scene

Indian or Persian

late 15th century

Object Place: Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions 22.2 x 20.8 cm (8 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number15.11

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia

InscriptionsOn 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)