"A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden"
from the Haft Awrang of Jami1. |
Signed by Abdollah-e
Mozahheb from the Sifat al-ashqin2.
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| The
picture of the prince in "A City Dweller Desecrates a
Garden" from the Haft Awrang of Jami
seems to match the Prince in the Sifat al-ashqin
but it raises as many questions as it answers. Please
note the branch cut mark to the right of the
princes cup. Here we see the hallmark of the
meticulously pruned tree. The cut has been made
as close as possible to the stem in the branch
axil, but outside the branch bark ridge. The tree
in the Sifat al-ashqin is flush cut and lacks the
distinctive star pattern of the tree in the
"A City Dweller
Desecrates a Garden".
Obviously the question then becomes is the
star ring significant as an attribution clue?
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"A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden"
from the Haft Awrang of Jam |
Detail "The Aziz and Zulaykha enter the
Capital of Egypt and the Egyptians come out to
greet them"3. |
Please
compare the star ring cut mark in the "A City Dweller Desecrates a
Garden" and in "Aziz and
Zulaykha".
I must note that I can not
recall a Chinar tree the color brown we see in
"The Aziz and Zulaykha enter the Capital of
Egypt and the Egyptians come out to greet
them". Then again I do not know that much
about Chinar trees.
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Detail "The Aziz and Zulaykha enter the
Capital of Egypt and the Egyptians come out to
greet them"
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Detail - "Ustad
Abdollah"4. a signed miniature by Abdollah-e
Mozahheb
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| When I was scanning
the star ring cut marks in the "Aziz and
Zulaykha" miniature I was surprised to feel
as though I recognized the young fellow in the
tree. He bears an uncanny resemblance to the
subject of Ustad Abdollah.
Abdullah seems to like this sort of fur trimmed
felt crowned hat. (See Hats
and Stringed Instruments) |
Detail "AA City
Dweller Desecrates a Garden" from the
Haft Awrang of Jami |
Detail "The flight of the Tortoise"5. |
| Here we see a
comparison of trees in miniatures from the Haft
Awrang of Jami that are both attributable to
Painter D if one follows S. C. Welch 6. Both show
the distinctive star ring cut marks. |
Detail "A City Dweller
Desecrates a Garden" from the Haft
Awrang of Jami |
Detail "The flight of the Tortoise"
from the Haft Awrang of Jami |
Here
we can compare the trees and also please note the
birds.
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- 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.
Page 119 Folio 100b
- Kuhnel,
Ernst. La Miniature En Orient, Paris: Les
Editions G. Cres & Cie, 1925. Plate 70a.Plate 70a.
- Simpson,
Marianna Shreve, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan
Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely
Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran.
Page 185 Folio 215a
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