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Khosrow & Shirin

Khosrow & Shirin

  • Number 55char

  • Type Village

  • Material Wool

  • Style Pictorial

  • Origin Saruk

  • Size 138 x 107

  • Age 1348

Story

The famous scene of the star-crossed romanic couple is legendary among aficionados of medieval Persian poetry and painting. On his way to Armenia, the Sassanian King Khosrow spots the princess Shirin skinny dipping in a stream .. so he hides and peeps. The scene was copied in the 19th century in detail on Persian rugs. This is a simpler, cruder yet more endearing copy woven in a household in Saruk. The essential elements of the story are all there plus a beaming Khorshid Khanom sun-face.

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