Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts

Simurgh Assisting at the Birth of Rustam, from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
1675–1676, by Muhammad Zaman (Iranian)
Opaque watercolors, ink, and gold on paper

Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Per 277.3.
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