Mirak, Teymur Enthroned
 
Date Description Source Reference
1494 A.D. Four yurts. 

Yurt, vent cover is dark blue with green edge and light blue lining, red vent, decorated blue band around vent, light orange roof with red foliage pattern, with blue shapes in light blue decorated with dark blue foliage pattern, connect by a small yellow circles decorated in black foliage pattern a similar half circle in green is above the door, light blue band decorated in dark blue foliage pattern around valance, the hanging strip is decorated in golden animal figures on a white background, the door is closed but clearly outlined with dark blue decorative pattern along the upper lintel, the door and walls are decorated in the same style as the roof but in a slightly different pattern. 

The other three yurts only show their roofs, the rest is hidden behind a white cloth screeen decorated with light blue bands with a dark blue foliage motif at the bottom and top of the screen. 

Red yurt, red vent cover with orange triming, blue vent, orange band around vent. 

Yellow yurt, no vent cover depicted, orange band around oval apex (supposedly the covered vent), orange foliage decoration on roof. 

Light blue yurt, no vent cove depicted, red foliage decoration on oval apex, bands of decoration around roof.

“Fig. 17. “Teymur Enthroned’, attributed her to Mirak, from a ‘Zafarnamé’. Türk ve Islam Eserleri Müzesi, Istanbul (T.1964, fol. 97a). 1494. Soudavar, A., Art of the Persian Courts, Selections from the Art and History Trust Collections, New York, 1992, p. 111.


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