The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Meeting of Bahram Gur with a Princess", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

Date

mid-16th century

Medium

Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper

Dimensions

H. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm) W. 9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

Iran

Object number

38.13

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1938

The Met object ID 449216. 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.