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Notes on The Al-Sabah Collection
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The Aberconway Kurdish Garden Carpet
Northwest Persia, 18th century
3.75 x 9.25m (12ft 3in x 30ft 4in)
The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar
al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait National Museum,
inv.no. LNS 10R

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The Al-Sabah Collection

The Al-Sabah Collection is one of the great collections of Islamic art in the world today. From precious stones to miniature paintings, to great carpets it is exceptional.

Slaying of an Elephant Headed Creature.1.

Mughal India late sixteenth century. The Al-Sabah Collection

Here we see a creature with the body of a lion and the head of an elephant. the creature has the feathery streamers that signify that it is a mystical creature. The coloring of the rocks as well as the small living bush and the small dead bush in the foreground rocks tells me that if this is not by Abd as Samad it is certainly in his style.

See Possible Origin of the Elephant Headed Monster design.

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Thanks and best wishes,

J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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