A KING RECEIVING A VISITOR IN HIS COURT, QAJAR IRAN 19TH CENTURY OR EARLIER Miniature on paper with Persian poetry, a king receiving a visitor or a messenger with his entourage against a background of trees and a beach, 4 columns of 2ll. of poetry at the top and the bottom of the miniature, laid down between wide rule on cream coloured margin with gold rules, mounted on brown album page, 4 columns of 29ll. of poetry ruled by gilt, folio 40.3 x  28cm, miniature 38.5 x 24.5cm, text 13.6x 25cm