Manuscript leaf

Leaf from a manuscript with a miniature painting of a figure scene on the obverse, and lines from two of Nizami's poems on the reverse, on glossy cream paper in a dark beige paper mount: Middle East, Iran, Safavid School, c. 1560

Painting

A leaf from a folding book, with a painting of a temple and three tiers of figures on a pink coloured background with a an inscription in the top left hand corner referring to the Buddhist cosmos, and a longer inscription in the reverse: South East Asia, Thailand, 20th century