DETAILS
- Artist
- Balchand
- Date
- 1505
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- H. 15 3/8 in. (39 cm)
- Collection
- Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955
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