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 modeles 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:
I suspect that this is related to the art
of the Uzbek court late in the sixteenth century.
Attribution: Attributed here to Herat,
Circa 1595.
Detail - Animals
in Combat
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Iy is my belief that these designs are
related to the Sanguzko and Salting type carpets.
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Detail - Animals
in Combat
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This bird harkens back to the court art of
Soltan Ibrahim Mirza. |
Detail - Animals in Combat
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Detail "The flight of the
Tortoise" from the Haft Awrang of Jami 1.
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Here
we can compare the birds with those of Khorasan
in 1555 to1565.
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Detail - Animals in Combat
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Detail "A City Dweller
Desecrates a Garden" from the Haft Awrang of
Jami 2.
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Here
we can compare the birds with those of Khorasan
in 1555 to1565.
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Detail - Animals
in Combat
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Detail - The Salting Carpet
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| 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. |
Simpson,
Marianna Shreve, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan
Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely
Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran.
Page 185 Folio 215a
Simpson,
Marianna Shreve, and Farhad, Massumeh. Sultan
Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang, A Princely
Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran. Page
165.Folio 179b
For Further Reading:
Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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