Rustam with his distinctive lion-face head-gear charges his Turanian adversary as they ruಌsh towards each other brandishing gold battle maces. 🦄The epic figures are envisioned here as Akbar-period Mughals with the attending figures below wearing flat pagris (headgear) and Mughal-style jamas.

Shown against a mauve rocky outcropping withꦍ colorful small flowers shown floating between foreground and backgroun🌄d. Below them a dark-green flower-strewn ground.

Various details in the color palette, facial and costume types as well as the scattered floral sprigs suggest a 𒁃date i🐷n the very early Seventeenth Century and were likely produced at Agra - a center of artistic activity patronized by members of the Mughal court during the later reign of the Mughal Emperor

Another folio from the same manuscript was soꦛld a🐷t Christies New York, 11th September 2019 lot 392.