Persian miniature watercolour
نگارگری ایرانی negârgari irâni
£180
Similar to European illuminated manuscripts the Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions of the Ottoman's in Turkey, and the Mughal's in the Indian sub-continent.
Persian art under Islam had never completely forbidden the human figure, and in the miniature tradition the depiction of figures is considered a private form, kept in a book or album and only shown to those the owner chooses.
