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"Alexander Visits the Sage Plato in his Mountain Cave", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
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Main support: Ink opaque watercolor gold on paper
Margins: Gold on dyed paper
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Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran 1913
Title: "Alexander Visits the Sage Plato in his Mountain Cave", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
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Main support: Ink opaque watercolor gold on paper
Margins: Gold on dyed paper.
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