"The Anecdote of the Man Who Fell into the Water", Folio 44r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Sultan Ali Mashhadi · dated 892 AH/1487 CE

"The Anecdote of the Man Who Fell into the Water", Folio 44r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 1.0

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