SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY

The distinctive slightly rounded red turban batons in our painting are very similar to those depicted in an illustration to a shahnama attributed by Lale Uluç to Safavid Shiraz circa 1560, (Lale Uluç, Turkman Governors Shiraz Artisans and Ottoman collectors: Sixteenth Century Shiraz Manuscripts, Istanbul 2006, no.127, p.178).