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accession number:	1947.500.b
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An Episode from the Story of the Sasanian King Khusrau and his Beloved Shirin, from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami (1141–1209), 1540-70. Iran, Shiraz (?), Safavid Period (1501-1736). Opaque watercolor, ink, gold, and silver on paper; sheet: 29.6 x 16.2 cm (11 5/8 x 6 3/8 in.); image: 21 x 14 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.500.b

title:				An Episode from the Story of the Sasanian King Khusrau and his Beloved Shirin, from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami (1141–1209)
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creation date:			1540-70
creation date earliest:		1540
creation date latest:		1570
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iran, Shiraz (?), Safavid Period (1501-1736)
technique:	opaque watercolor, ink, gold, and silver on paper
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Manuscript
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measurements: Sheet: 29.6 x 16.2 cm (11 5/8 x 6 3/8 in.); Image: 21 x 14 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 116): November 14 2012 - December 9, 2013.<br><br>CMA "Muhammad Shah's Royal Persian Tent" (gallery 234): July 13, 2015 - June 27, 2016 (1947.500.b).

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PROVENANCE

	Purchased from Heeramaneck Galleries by J.H. Wade Fund
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wall description: 
The <em>Khamsa </em>is a collection of five narrative poems, one of which is dedicated to the romance of Khusrau Parviz (590–628), a pre-Islamic king of Iran, and Shirin, his beloved Armenian princess. Khusrau’s turban has the anachronistic baton worn by Safavid royalty and the egret feather, an emblem of nobility instituted by the Mongols in the 1200s.<br>Here the lovers are seated before a tent in an idyllic landscape at night, indicated by the dark blue sky dotted with stars, painted with now tarnished silver. Shirin serves figs and pomegranates, symbolic of fertility, to Khusrau as attendants bring more figs and wine. Next to Shirin’s black horse, the musician at bottom right plays an <em>oud</em>, a stringed instrument similar to a lute.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 724
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n132

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 223
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n247

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 223
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n247

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 280
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n300

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