Sujet
Taffeta Fragment with Gul-u-Bulbul (Rose and Nightingale) Pattern, 1700s. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Taffeta Fragment with Gul-u-Bulbul (Rose and Nightingale) Pattern, 1700s. A luxurious textile like this would have been used for courtly robes or coats in Safavid Iran. The bird-and-flower motif is known as gul-u-bulbul in Persian, meaning "rose and nightingale." The motif references the poetic image of a nightingale plaintively singing to an indifferent rose as a metaphor for unrequited human love as well as the soul?s desire for mystical union with the divine.
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Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19G09_102
Model release
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Property release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
64,8Mo (6,5Mo) / 41,0cm x 39,7cm / 4837 x 4684 (300dpi)