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Young Man Playing Flute with Singing Bird Perched in a Blossoming Tree
(Manuscripts and Rare Books, Islamic World , Islamic Manuscripts)
Seated in a stylized landscape, a youth plays the flute while looking up at a singing bird perched in a tree in this illustration from Walters manuscript W.653. The buff-colored margins are decorated with a man reading a book, a youth pouring wine, and an angel.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Iran (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 7 1/16 x W: 3 15/16 in. (18 x 10 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
W.653.24B
