Framed 19th Century Indo-Persian Mughal Manuscript Miniature Painting. Depicts a woman demurely accepting an offered necklace from an admirer in a garden with high walls. The date "5 Sep 1992" is stamped into the back of the frame. 

Overall Size: 12 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. 

A Persian miniature is a small Persian painting (usually on paper or sometimes bone), whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa, using techniques broadly comparable to the Western Medieval and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Miniature painting became a significant genre in Persian art by the 13th Century, receiving Chinese influence after the Mongol conquests (directly alluded to by the name Mughal), and the highest point in the tradition was reached in the 15th and 16th Centuries where they were the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions, principally the Ottoman miniature in Turkey and the Mughal miniature in the Indian subcontinent. Persian art under Islam is of particular interest to scholarly studies because it never completely forbade depicting the human figure, which in the miniature tradition are central subjects (often in large numbers), partly because the miniature is considered a private art form, kept in a book or album and only shown to those the owner chooses, rather than large-scale public art which could be defaced or covered over. As well as the figurative scenes in miniatures there was a parallel style of non-figurative ornamental decoration which was found in borders and panels in miniature pages and spaces at the start or end of a work or section, and manuscripts of the Quran and other religious books often included a considerable number of these illuminated pages.

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