Manuscript
Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama
Maker unrecorded. 1330–35. opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the catalogue record, image rights and documented connections from The Cleveland Museum of Art.
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- A dragon changes its landscape.Cleveland describes Chinese stylistic and spatial models in this painting’s rock formations, tree trunk and dragon.
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- A dragon changes its landscape.Attributed tradition · What travels besides the subject? (The account concerns models and visual traditions, not a proven source painting. The other works in our motif passages are comparisons, not proposed ancestors of this page.)
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- Dragonmotif · Artologium visual observation · Source ↗
- Narrative scenerepeat structure · Artologium visual observation · Source ↗
- Papermaterial · Institution record · Source ↗
- Manuscript illuminationtechnique · Institution record · Source ↗
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ManuscriptObject type
Manuscript is a type of object named in the museum catalogue.
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Manuscript
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Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
PaperMaterial
Paper recorded in the object's medium.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art supplies “opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper” in its medium/materials field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Catalogue: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
InkMaterial
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The Cleveland Museum of Art supplies “opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper” in its medium/materials field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Catalogue: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
GoldMaterial
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The Cleveland Museum of Art supplies “opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper” in its medium/materials field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Catalogue: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
WatercolourTechnique
Watercolour is a making process named in the museum catalogue.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art supplies “opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper” in its medium/techniques field. This label was normalized by the documented import rule.
opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
Catalogue: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
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