A prince drinking in a garden pavilion by night, from an Anthology (Majmu`a) of Persian poetry
Object Information
Object Information
Description
- Object no:
- Per 149.78
- Title:
- A prince drinking in a garden pavilion by night, from an Anthology (Majmu`a) of Persian poetry
- Artist and production place:
- Unknown
Herat
Unknown
Bukhara
- Calligrapher and production place:
- Unknown
Herat
- Production date:
- 1451-1469, borders added 1540-1549
- Dimensions:
- 162 mm x 104 mm (height x width)
- Material:
- Paper (material) Pigment (material) Ink (material) Gold
- Language:
- Persian
- Script type:
- Nasta'liq script
- Collection:
- Persian collection
- Object category:
- Manuscript
- Object name:
- Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
- Description:
- A prince in a pavilion by night, from an Anthology (Majmu`a) of Persian poetry. A young prince sits holding a wine cup in a red pavilion at night, in a dark garden of flowering trees. Servants stand in attendance, offer him wine, and play music, while light is provided by a row of tall candles and by small oil lamps floating in the pool. Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, re-mounted in gold-painted cream borders, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with painting (on recto), from the Book of Separation (Firaq-nama) by Salman Savaji (d. 1378) composed for Jalayirid Sultan Uvays, detached from codex (Per 149), anthology dedicated to Timurid prince Abu Sa`id (r. 1452-67), decorated borders added later by order of Shaybanid ruler `Abd al-Aziz (r. 1540-1549), Herat, Afghanistan, c. 1451-1469, with borders added Bukhara, Uzbekistan, c. 1540-1549.
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