Cleveland Museum of Art
Shamsa (recto) from right folio from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)
- Date
- c. 1444
- Medium
- opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Culture
- Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501)
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
At the center of the recto side of this folio is a shamsa, or sunburst, an exquisite symmetrical pattern of floral and geometric shapes painted in precious pigments and gold to reference divine light. The shamsa might have been intended to contain a name or portrait identifying the manuscript’s original owner, but in this case it is empty.
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