The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art

"Two Nightingales in a Rose Bush", Double-Sided Illustrated Leaf from an Ottoman Album

'Abdullah Bukhari

Date

ca. 1725–45

Medium

Opaque watercolor with black ink, shell, and leaf gold on paper, with a marbled paper margin

Dimensions

Folio: H. 16 5/16 in. (41.4 cm) W. 11 in. (27.9 cm) Painting: H. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm) W. 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)

Object type

Illustrated album leaf

Classification

Codices

Country

Turkey

Object number

2023.217

Credit line

Purchase, Ravi and Seran Trehan Gift, in celebration of Turkey’s Centennial, 2023

The Met object ID 898273. 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.