"A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden"
from the Haft Awrang of Jami1. |
Signed by Abdollah-e
Mozahheb from the Sifat al-ashqin2. |
| Working from
pictures in books puts me at a great disadvantage
but one must make do as best one can. Marianna
Shreve Simpson discussed the question of a
possible Abdollah-e
Mozahheb attribution for A City Dweller
Desecrates a Garden in Sultan
Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely
Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran. and
she rejects the idea. She was quite compelling
when she said "the figures in both Jami
scenes have an elegance and expressiveness that
the stolid citizens in the Divan illustration
certainly do not possess and the Sifat al-ashqin
youths barely approach"3. I must assume that
the differences are more obvious when you see
them in person because I see little difference
and humbly suggest that to my untrained eye the
Prince signed by Abdollah-e
Mozahheb in in the Sifat al-ashqin is the
equal of the unsigned Prince in the Haft Awrang
of Jami. |
A comparison of the
two.
"A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden"
from the Haft Awrang of Jami |
Signed by Abdollah-e
Mozahheb from the Sifat al-ashqin |
| The garments are
very similar as are the turbans. That is not
really significant. What is significant is the
little touches. Please note the drape of the coat
over the side of the pavilion. In the faces I
fail to discern any major differences. Even to
the inclusion and execution of the pomegranates
these two strike me as the product of the same
hand. The rugs on the floor are both similar and
what I think of as Shiraz carpets. |
Signed by Abdollah-e
Mozahheb from the Sifat al-ashqin |
"A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden"
from the Haft Awrang of Jami |
| Obviously the
figures are similar but as I review them I am
struck by the treatment of the turbans and the
similarity in the pictures. In this case I will
grant that I prefer the figure in the Haft
Awrang but I fail to see any great
difference. I continue this
discussion at:
|
- Simpson,
Marianna Shreve, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan
Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely
Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran. Page
165.Folio 179b
- Welch,
Stuart Cary. Persian Painting Five Royal
Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century. New
York: George Braziller. 1976. Plate 43, folio 179
verso.
- Simpson,
Marianna Shreve, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan
Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely
Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran.
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