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Originally Posted by Interested Party
Mercenary, Where is the example in post #41 from?
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The State Hermitage Museum (Petersburg, Russia)
Iran, XV-XVI, when Chinese motifs were popular in the art of the Timurid state and the early Safavids. At a later time, the heads of dragons and birds were removed.
inscription: "From the desire to have a sun-like dagger, every bone in my body side became a dagger".