The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art
"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)
Farid al-Din `Attar|Habiballah of Sava
- Date
- ca. 1600
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: H. 10 in. (25.4 cm) W. 4 1/2in. (11.4cm) Page: H. 13 in. (33 cm) W. 8 3/16 in. (20.8 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
- 63.210.11
- Credit line
- Fletcher Fund, 1963
Artist information
Iranian, Nishapur ca. 1142–ca. 1220 Nishapur|Iranian, active ca. 1590–1610
Subjects and terms
- Cranes
- Ducks
- Poetry
- Men
- Persian
- Peacocks
- Roosters
The Met object ID 451725. 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.