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"description": "This single painting of a youth holding a favored pomegranate reflects the style of the most gifted painter at the court of Shah \u2018Abbas, Riza-yi \u2018Abbasi, whose work inspired numerous adaptations and copies by other artists. In this painting, the youth is attired less extravagantly\u2014with less gold thread than those in the two paintings nearby\u2014presumably conveying a lower status. Gold thread was so expensive that rulers occasionally burned old fabrics for the monetary value of the gold.",
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