Persian (Tabriz, Herat, ...)

Afshar lion rug, Iran, 20th century.

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Qashqai

Noah's Ark. Islamic miniature

Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Persian 78, detail of f. 249v (Div-e Sepid or White Demon). Firdawsī. Shāhnāmah. 1718-1721. Painters: ʻAbd al-Salām Kashmīrī and ʻAbd al-Karīm Kashmīrī....

demonagerie: “ Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.593, f.182b (‘A sea-horse with large wings’). Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī, Wonders of Creation. Turkey, 10th century AH / 16th CE. ”

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Detail - Tunic Fragment Chimu Culture (Peru), 15th Century (or before), 8” x 35” A fragment of a tunic, with a compartmented design. The graphic geometric image coupled with what are apparently men ...

Demons surround lovers. Chapel of the cemetery, Grigoriou monastery of Mount Athos

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Qashqa'i lion rug, late 19th century #persianrug Qashqa'i lion rug, late 19th century

The black king of the djinns, Al-Malik al-Aswad, in the late 14th century Book of Wonders

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