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The beasts gathering before Solomon and Bilqis  wikidata:Q113016569 reasonator:Q113016569
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The beasts gathering before Solomon and Bilqis
label QS:Len,"The beasts gathering before Solomon and Bilqis"
Part of Falnamah ('Book of Divination') Edit this at Wikidata
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
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English: The beasts gathering before Solomon and Bilqis

‘The picture of the assembly of His Holiness Solomon and Bilqis (the Queen of Sheba), and the appearance of wild animals, birds, monsters, and fairies in front of that Holiness, and Asaf ibn Barkhiya who was the minister of that Holiness sitting on the opposite throne’. The treatment of this spread differs form all the others: the margins of this and the facing folio are illuminated, and the text (folio 22a) is written within clouds reserved on gold-illuminated ground.

This Falnamah ('Book of Divination') is one of the few complete — or near complete — copies of the work to have survived. It consists of a series of 35 double-page openings, each with a large min ... See full description on web site.
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Date circa 1610-30
Medium ink, opaque watercolour, gold and silver on paper; 19th-century Indian binding of green leather with gold-tooled frames in a European manner
institution QS:P195,Q63160499
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Place of creation India, the Deccan, probably Golconda
References https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/islamic-art/khalili-collection-islamic-art-falnamah-mss979/ (EnglishEdit this at Wikidata

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Description Falnamah ('Book of Divination')
Source Khalili Collections
Author Khalili Collections

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