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Muscial instrument (oriental lute, tar) with 3 strings and reddish wooden cocoanut-shaped sounding-box covered with parchment. Wood stem section with 3 hooks for metal strings.
Musical instrument with sounding box and gut strings
Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d. 1209); Couple with attendants; verso: text: Chapter thirty-one: discrediting overindulgence in eating, part from Khusraw va Shirin
Stem of a lute; painted black
Folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz (d. 1390); recto: text, Poem of wisdom of love, beauty, and celebration of time; verso: illustration and text, Feast of 'id
Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209); verso: illustration: Khusraw and Shirin are feasting at night in a desert encampment; recto: text
Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209); recto: illustration: Bahram Gur in the yellow pavilion on Sunday; verso: text
Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209); recto: illustration: Bahram Gur in the turquoise-blue pavilion on Wednesday; verso: text
Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209); Bahram Gur and the Princess in the Sandalwood Pavilion
Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209); verso: illustration: Bahram Gur visits the princess in the red pavilion on Tuesday; recto: text
Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209); verso: illustration: Bahram Gur visits the princess in the sandal pavilion; recto: text
Sounding box with lower metal bracket for strings
Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209); recto: Bahram Gur and the princess in the red pavilion; verso: text
Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209); Bahram Gur and the princess in the white pavilion
Folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz (d.1390); recto: Prince and Princess listen to musicians; verso: text
Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami; recto: Bahram Gur and the Princess in the Yellow Pavilion; verso: text, Princess telling the story
Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); verso: Daughters of Barzin Dance for Bahram Gur; recto: text: Bahram Gur and Barzin Shah
Bowl
Folio from a Yusuf u Zulaykha by Jami (d. 1492); verso: Potiphar and Zulaykha enthroned; recto: text

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collection
- Google Cultural Institute 19
- Freer Gallery 03: Engaging the Senses: Art in the Islamic World 1
topic
culture
- Iranians 12
place
- Iran 17
- Shiraz 7
- Fars 4
- Afghanistan 2
- Herat 2
- Astarabad 1
- Isfahan 1
- Khurasan 1
date
- 1500s 12
- 1510s 12
- 1520s 12
- 1530s 12
- 1540s 12
- 1550s 12
- 1560s 12
- 1570s 12
- 1600s 13
- 1610s 13

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