Persian Battle Miniature Painting

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An antique Persian miniature painting, richly decorated in opaque colours with gilt enrichments depicting soldiers on horseback and elephants engaged in a frenetic battle, a walled fortress to the rear; with Arabic script and surrounded by finely pencilled borders with alternating reserves of battlements and infantrymen, height 34 cm, width 19.5 cm

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