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The flowering trees the chinar tree, the grape vines, and smaller birds are very close to the style of the artist who painted "A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden" From The Haft Awrang of Jami, Khorasan circa 1565. My indications so far are that A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden was painted by Abdollah-e Mozahheb. This presents a problem since the kylins, the tiger and the larger birds ore in the style of Aqa Mirak. With the miserable picture quality of the image available to me I will have to stop at an attribution of Khorasan, Circa 1575.

Animals in Combat

Plate 72. Persia, Mid 16th century, Museum for Kunst and Gewerbe, Hamburg

La Miniature En Orient by Ernst Kuhnel 1925

Part of a book cover in lacquer and gold , with a cartouche border in color. These works have more than one once been used as models to the weavers of Hindu carpets. Perhaps this one does not come from Bukhara, as we first thought, but perhaps an artist from the court of Delhi.

Translator's Note:

The flowering trees the chinar tree, the grape vines, and smaller birds are very close to the style of the artist who painted "A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden" From The Haft Awrang of Jami, Khorasan circa 1565. My indications so far are that A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden was painted by Abdollah-e Mozahheb. This presents a problem since the kylins, the tiger and the larger birds ore in the style of Aqa Mirak. With the miserable picture quality of the image available to me I will have to stop at an attribution of Khorasan, Circa 1575.

Attribution: Attributed here to Khorasan, Circa 1575.

These creatures are Kylin and are in the style of Aqa Mirak. It is my belief that these designs are related to the Sanguszko and Salting type carpets.
Detail - Animals in Combat

 These creatures are Kylin and are in the style of Aqa Mirak.

It is my belief that these designs are related to the Sanguszko and Salting type carpets.


Detail - Animals in Combat

 This bird harkens back to the court art of Soltan Ibrahim Mirza.

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Detail "The flight of the Tortoise" from the Haft Awrang of Jami 1.

Here we can compare the birds with those of Khorasan in 1555 to1565.
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Detail "A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden" from the Haft Awrang of Jami 2.

Here we can compare the birds with those of Khorasan in 1555 to1565.


Detail - Animals in Combat


Detail - The Salting Carpet
I have long suspected that the key to attribution in the Salting type carpets is that the iconography is derived from that of Khorasan but rendered in a manner in keeping with an Uzbek Court esthetic.


Detail - Animals in Combat


Detail - The Williams Medallion and Animal Carpet Fragment
My thought is that the Williams Medallion and Animal Carpet Fragment is either a little earlier or roughly contemporaneous. The combination of the flowers and birds in the Williams is very close to the style of the artist who painted "A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden" From The Haft Awrang of Jami, Khorasan circa 1565.

Here on both images we have a large Chinar tree with a thick grape vine with ripe grapes in bunches. In each we see similar foliage and similar birds.

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Detail "A City Dweller Desecrates a Garden"

  1. Simpson, Marianna Shreve, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran.  Page 185 Folio 215a

  2. Simpson, Marianna Shreve, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran. Page 165.Folio 179b

J. Barry O'Connell Jr. - Islamic art and Persian Miniature Paintings