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Title: Illustrated catalogue of an extraordinary collection of Greek, Saracenic, Mesopotamian and Persian faïences, glass and other objects of exceeding rarity and artistic beauty
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Townsend, Horace, 1859-1922
Subjects: Tabbagh, (Émile) & Cie
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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No. 329PERSIAN MINIATURE Height, 5% mche (Fifteenth Century) idlh, 7■• i indie* Painted in India ink, with light washes of color. By the cele-brated miniaturist Behzad. In the foreground of a rocky land-scape arc seen two cranes and many birds of other species. Inthe background is a tree, in the brandies of which is the name ofthe artist, Behzad. No. 330 PERSIAN MINIATURE (Sixteenth Century) Height, 7 inches; width, l1 ( inches Painted in gold and colors. From a MS. illustrated by ShahMahinoud. dated 1522 A.l). In an open meadow are three tents, in one of which Bahrain Gur is standing with his wife, who holds a child in her arms. In another, two women arc conversing.Outside an old man hails upon a stick, another pla\s a pipe,goats and gazelles nurse their young, while on the trees birds areI < relied. Surrounded by a border of foliage and animals in goldon an ivory ground. Second and Last Afternoon
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No. 331 PEHSIAX MI MATURE (Sixteenth Century Height, ()>4 inches; width, 4-1., Inches Painted in India ink, heightened with touches of gold and color. By a miniaturist of the school of Ri/.a Abbasi. Imam, wearing aturban of light blue, is stated on a donkey, drawn with astonish-ing realism. Surrounded by an inner border rosetted in gold or.a red ground and by a broad border of rocks with trees and birdsin gold on a pale purple ground. Second and Last Afternoon No. 332 PERSIAN MINIATURE (Sixteenth Century) Height, 7 inches; width, 5 incites Painted in gold and colors. From a MS. illustrated by ShahMahmoud and dated 1522 A.D. On one side of a brook arepitched tents, in one of which sit Bahrain Gur and Khousrau. Inanother a woman prepares food, while a butcher near by is cut-ting up meat. On the other side of the brook a woman is boilingfood over a fire, and in the brook Bahrains son is bathing. Sur-rounded by a border of flowers, animals and birds in gold on anivory-colored ground. N

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