Squirrels in a plane tree by Abu al-Hasan (1589 – c. 1630), Mughal India
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Portions of an 18th c palampore (bed cover) featuring Tree of Life design, the Coromandel Coast, SE India, of painted and resist-dyed cotton
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Aja’ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara’ib al-mawjudat (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing) by al-Qazwini (1203-1283)
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Aja’ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara’ib al-mawjudat by al-Qazwini (1203-1283)
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Aja’ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara’ib al-mawjudat by al-Qazwini (1203-1283)
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Birds and Flowers - Muhammad Yusuf, Persia, 17th century
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A firman (imperial decree), paper, written in Tawqi and Taliq
Iran, probably Isfahan; 816 H = 1414
H: 600; W: 50 cm
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Drawing pasted on an album leaf with calligraphy. “Two Wild Boars”
Iran, Herat or Tabriz; 2nd half of 15th century
Drawing: 6.6 × 10.8 cm
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Miniature from Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi’s Kitab suwar al-kawakib. “The Constellation Gemini”
Iran; beginning of 15th C
Leaf: 21.4 × 14.3 cm
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Double frontispiece painting from Firdawsi’s Shahnama. “A Princely Couple with Courtiers in a Garden”
Western Iran or Iraq; early15th C
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Min. from al-Sarai’s Nahj al-Faradis. “The Prophet Muhammad Encounters the Angel of Prayer as a White Cockerel” (recto)
Iran, Herat; c. 1465
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Miniature from a copy of al-Sarai’s Nahj al-Faradis. “The Prophet Muhammad Before the Angel with Seventy Heads” (recto)
Iran, Herat; c. 1465
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Fritware tile, painted in polychrome glazes and gold leaf. Cuerda seca technique
Iran; c. 1440
Diam: 35 cm
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Look it's our old friend the massive rooster angel of the Mirajnama/ Sraosha, our favourite Zoroastrian deity!
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Love the way its tail bursts out of the frame and flicks back in.
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