Persian Miniature Painting: Haftvad and the Worm c. 1540 signed "Dust Muhammad painted this"circa 1640


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"Haftvad and the Worm" signed "Dust Muhammad painted this"circa 1640. Welch, Wonders of the Age

I noticed the illusion of paper thin wall. This is something I note in a page from the Hamza-name formerly in the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck now in LACMA as well as. See Pal, Indian Painting plate 46.

"Haftvad and the Worm" signed "Dust Muhammad painted this"circa 1640.

Doost Muhammed was a student of the herati master Bihzad.

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This piece is excerpted from Welch, Wonders of the Age . Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. 1979. for the purposes of non-commercial discussion.

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