3479634 Visit to a Dervish, 1560-61 (gouache & gold on paper) by Muzahhib, Mahmud (fl.1560); 35.4x23.2 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Bukhara, 1560-61 From a Gulistan of Sheikh Muslih al-Din Sa\'di, gouache heightened with gold on paper, a number of figures, some leading horses and all wearing brightly coloured robes stand around a winding silver stream visiting a pair of dervishes who sit in and before a cave, a large tree with autumnal leaves and inhabited by birds towards the centre of the composition, the saddle of one of the horses in the foreground with the signature of Mahmud Muzahhib and date of 968, 2ll. of elegant nasta\'liq above, laid down between gold and polychrome rules on wide cream border decorated with gold floral scroll, the verso with 12ll. of similar nasta\'liq in black, red, gold and blue, arranged in one and two columns on similar wide margins Painting 11 x 6翹in. (27.8 x 15.7cm.); folio 14 x 9翹in. (35.4 x 23.2cm.)); Photo 穢 Christie\'s Images; Uzbek, out of copyright.