The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Chinese Emperor Standing in Pavilion", Folio from a Majma al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru

Hafiz-i Abru

Date

ca. 1425

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Dimensions

Painting with Text Block: H.13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm) W. 9 in. (22.9 cm) Page: H. 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm) W. 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm) Frame: Ht. 21 1/4 in. (54 cm) W. 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm) D. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

present-day Afghanistan

Object number

29.84

Credit line

Gift of V. Everit Macy, 1929

The Met object ID 448242. 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.