The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Fable of the Lion and the Hare", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Maker not identified

Date

dated A.H. 733/1333 CE

Medium

Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions

Painting: H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm) W. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm) Page: H. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm) W. 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)

Object type

Folio from an illustrated manuscript

Classification

Codices

Country

Iran

Object number

59.7

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1959

The Met object ID 451480. 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.