Artist: Shafi’ Abbasi, Persian, active ca. 1628–74, Flower and a Butterfly, dated AH 1065–1654/55 CE, Ink on paper, sheet: 13 × 8 1/16 in. (33 ×  cm), Paintings of insects and flowers became popular in seventeenth-century Iran. This work, however, is not a painting but a type of etching that could be applied to paper or textiles. The inscription in the upper right corner identifies the pattern designer as the Iranian court painter Shafi ‘Abbasi, who was known for his flower paintings, demonstrating that court painters were free to work in different media., Iranian/Persian, Islamic, Safavid

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