MS M.386.4r
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A seated youth putting on a falconer's glove as his pet falcon sits on his knee.
Afghanistan
ca. 1600.
378 x 241 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.
MS M.386.4r
Description:
Ms. illuminated in Herāt, Afghanistan, ca. 1600.
Miniature measures 140 x 90 mm.
Artist: in the style of Ḥabīb-Allāh Mashhadī.
The surround contains cuttings from a manuscript; the end of a Persian quatrain rhyming in "-ar gīrand".