This painting depicts courtiers of the Safavid ruler ShÄh Ê¿AbbÄs I (r. 996 AH / 1588 CE -- 1038 AH / 1629 CE). It is the right side of a double-page composition, which most likely served as a frontispiece to a manuscript. Certain courtiers of ShÄh Ê¿AbbÄs I are identified by name. In the far upper right two men stand wearing turbans with vertical extensions held at the center, who are identified as AlpÄn BÄ«k (Beg) (in a blue robe) and QarajaghÄy KhÄn (in a red robe). Their headdress is distinctive of high-ranking members of court during the early eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. QarajaghÄy KhÄn, an Armenian of the royal household, held a number of political positions at court and was an important patron of the arts. Standing lower down on the right side is ShÄh VardÄ« BÄ«k Ishik AqÄsÄ« (literally master of the threshold, or master of ceremonies) (in a gold and black robe). An Uzbek envoy (Ä«lchÄ«-yi Ūzbak) (in a beige and blue patterned robe) is seated on the carpet. Falconers, grooms, and a musician (QubÄd-i Kurd) standing beside a man identified as MÄ«rzÄ Ê¿Umar (?) Shaykh (in a red and gold robe) are also shown. There are two seated female figures, identified as GulparÄ« and DukhtardallÄlah. The latter seems to denote a woman who procures enslaved girls for the palace. This single leaf has been associated with Reception at the court of Shah`Abbas I, also housed at the Walters Art Museum (W.771, fol. 50a). However, it is unlikely that the two ever formed a double-page composition.
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