Poetic manuscript folio, Safavid Iran, Tabriz, 16th century Manuscript folio on paper, one side illustrated in gouache and gold with a scene of drinking in a palace by a pool, several observers, veiled men and women, visible in windows and over a wall. The other side is calligraphed with a 17-line text spread over two columns in Persian nasta'liq in black ink, the text taken from an ode in the Diwân 'Ashar by Salman Savoji (d. 1376). Frame covered with a weave of metallic threads and polychrome silk. Dim. folio: 23.5 x 15.5 cm; painting: 14.5 x 9.7 cm Freckles, stains, polychromatic shifts, wear.