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"Firdausi's Parable of the Ship of Shi'ism", Folio 18v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
- Date
- ca. 1530–35
- Type
- Folio from an illustrated manuscript
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object number
- 1970.301.1
- Credit
- Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 1970
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