AN ELEGANT MUGHAL MINIATURE Gouache heighted with gold on pa...

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AN ELEGANT MUGHAL MINIATURE
Gouache heighted with gold on paper laid down on plain paper, a three stemmed flower with two buds and one flower head, outlined with gold 16X8 cm

Double opium poppies were much-used, popular flowers in Mughal era, As an example The tomb of I’timād al-Daulah, prime minister under Jahāngīr and father of his favorite wife Nūr Jahān, was constructed by the latter between 1622 and 1628 and is located in a small but beautiful garden enclosure on the banks of the Yamuna River in Agra. The outside of the tomb is covered in pietra dura inlay depicting, among other things, bowls of fruit and bouquets of narcissi; the interior is lavishly covered in floral murals. Prominent among these are these prominent, botanical study-like images of double opium poppies.

https://www.plinthetal.com/blog-1/2018/2/7/the-floral-empire-flowers-in-the-arts-of-mughal-south-asia