Glück, Heinrich [Editor]; Strzygowski, Josef [Honoree]: Studien zur Kunst des Ostens: Josef Strzygowski zum sechzigsten Geburtstage von seinen Freunden und Schülern (Wien , Hellerau: Avalun-Verl., 1923)

overwhelmed and lost under a flood of new influences, but in this picture, which
was painted about I486, (as the colophon of the MS. bears the date 891 A. H.,) the
old Sasanian tradition still survives, the lutist is still uncomfortably perched on the
camel behind the prince, and though he now wears the headdress which the Mongols
introduced into Persia, he reproduces the same attitude as that of Bahräm Giir on
the piece of work of the 7th century.
Later Persian artists apparently felt that the camel was a clumsy beast for a prince
to ride while hunting, and they paint Bahräm Gur seated on a horse and provided
the lutist with a horse of her own to ride on. The old Sasanian tradition disappears,
and in the many representations of this incident made during the Safavid and suc-
ceeding periods of Persian painting no evidences of it appear to have survived.
1The Shahnama of Firdausi done into English by A. G. Warner and E. Warner. Vol. VI, p. 383.
(London 1912).
2 Plate I.
3 Smirnov, Oriental Silver (Russian), ed by the Imp. arch. Com. (St. Petersburg 1909.) Plate XXVIII.
4 Smirnov, op. cit. p. 6.
5 Plate II.
6 Henri Riviere, La Céramique dans l’art musulman. (Paris 1913). Planche 62.