Youth Holding a Pomegranate; Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript

A young man with light skin wearing a green dress with a yellow and brown striped coat and a fur hat, holding a pomegranate; his head is turned to the left. The image is on a beige background, framed in gold; the rest of the image shows a green field with a gold floral pattern. The image's color scheme consists of green, beige, gold, white, orange and brown. The man also wears orange shoes, a blue sash around his waist with gold spots; a gold band around his head with a black feather; his hair is dark; he holds a blue cloth in his right hand. The background shows a tree on the right; and flying birds on both sides. The image is rectangular.

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Dimensions: 538 × 893 px
Museum Record: View original

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Zulaykha in her palace and as an old woman with Joseph, from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al-Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492); verso from a Panj Ganj of Abd al-Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492), with two masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Khirad-nama-i Iskandari (Alexander’s Book of Wisdom)

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Bahram Visits the White Domed Pavilion on Friday (recto)

Zulaykha in her palace and as an elderly woman with Joseph (recto), from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al- Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492)

Persian Couplets (recto); Sleeping Youth (verso)

Bahram Gur Visits the Princess of India in the Black Pavilion (recto): Illustration and Text, Persian Verses, from a manuscript of the Khamsa of Nizami, Haft Paykar [Seven Portraits]

Youth Holding a Pomegranate; Illustration from a Single Page Manuscript

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