Persian Miniature Painting: Hats and Stringed Instruments

In the Haft Awrang of Jami folio 100b 1 "The Aziz and Zulaykha enter the Capital of Egypt and the Egyptians come out to greet them" is in Stuart Cary Welch's Painter A Group2. While I am still not ready to attribute the miniature I am intrigued by the similarities to the style of Abdollah-e Mozahheb.

Detail "The Aziz and Zulaykha enter the Capital of Egypt and the Egyptians come out to greet them"	Detail "Solomon and Bilqis Sit Together and Converse Frankly" attributed to Abdollah-e Mozahheb5
Here we see a child in "The Aziz and Zulaykha enter the Capital of Egypt and the Egyptians come out to greet them" and "Solomon and Bilqis Sit Together and Converse Frankly" side by side. Soudavar attributed "Solomon and Bilqis" to Abdollah-e Mozahheb in Art of the Persian Court.

Detail "Diwan of Ibrahim Mirza" folio 23B6 attributed to Abdollah-e Mozahheb7	Detail "A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden"8
Please forgive the poor picture quality but I am making do as best I can with the images available. Here we see a fairly rare type of hat with arabesque leaves on the crown and fur trim.

Detail "Diwan of Ibrahim Mirza" folio 23B6 attributed to Abdollah-e Mozahheb7

	Detail "The Aziz and Zulaykha enter the Capital of Egypt and the Egyptians come out to greet them" attributed to Painter D.
	Signed by Abdollah-e Mozahheb from the Sifat al-ashqin9
	Detail "A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden" attributed to Painter D10.
	Signed by Abdollah-e Mozahheb Plate 70: Ustad Abdollah
	Detail: Youth and Old Age  Tabriz circa 1530 In two of Abdollah-e Mozahheb signed works he includes a rather distinctive  with a small sound box.. It is three stringed with a long thin neck and a small box. Here in a detail from Youth and Old Age  Tabriz circa 1530 we can see a sitar with the larger sound box and appears to habe four strings. This larger box sitar is far more typical

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1. Simpson, Marianna Shreve, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran.  Page 119 Folio 100b
2. Welch, Stuart Cary. Persian Painting Five Royal Manuscripts of the Sixteenth Century. New York: George Braziller. 1976. Page 48.
3. Simpson, Marianna Shreve, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran.  Page 118 Folio 100b
4. Kuhnel, Ernst. La Miniature En Orient, Paris: Les Editions G. Cres & Cie, 1925. Plate 70a.Plate 70a.
5. Soudavar, Abolala. Art of the Persian Court. . New York: Rizzoli, 1992, pages 229
6. Welch, Stuart Cary. and Welch, Anthony Arts of the Islamic Book. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1982. plate 30.
7. Soudavar, Abolala. Art of the Persian Court. New York: Rizzoli, 1992, page 229
8. Simpson, Marianna Shreve, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran.  Page 166 detail  Folio 179B
9. Soudavar, Abolala. Art of the Persian Court. New York: Rizzoli, 1992, pages 230, plate 90a.
10. Simpson, Marianna Shreve, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran.  Page 165 - 167 detail  Folio 179B
11. Bahari, Ebadollah. Bihzad Master of Persian Painting. London UK.: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1996. Plate 10.
12. Bahari, Ebadollah. Bihzad Master of Persian Painting. London UK.: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1996. Pages 32 and 33.

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