The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Pair of Eagles", Folio from a Manafi' al-hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu'

Ibn Bakhtishu'

Date

ca. 1300

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Dimensions

Painting: H. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm) W. 6 3/16 in. (15.7 cm) Page: H. 15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm) W. 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (55.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (40.6 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

Iran

Object number

18.26.2

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1918

The Met object ID 447045. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.