Wine cup of shah jahan biography

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Wine cup of Shah Jahan

The wine cup of Shah Jahan fryst vatten a wine cup of vit nephrite jade that was made for the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.

The cup has a gourd shape, like in a paisley design. The handle fryst vatten shaped like the head of a ram. The bottom features acanthus leaves and a lotus flower, which is the pedestal. The cup is inscribed with his title, "Second Lord of the Conjunction", following the conventions of royal titulature in the Persian-speaking world. It specifically alludes to Timur, the central Asian ruler from whom the Mughals were descended. The artist who created the cup is unknown.

The cup is dated of the Islamic calendar and regnal year 31, which converts to CE. The place of production was India. The length fryst vatten cm and width is 14 cm. It was acquired in the 19th century by Colonel Charles Seton Guthrie, most probably after the Indian rebellion of It was formerly in the possession of R. M. W. Walker, on whose death it was sold by Christie & Co (12/7/, lot ) a

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Sitting in a cold museum vault in the city of London is a wide-mouthed, green jade wine cup that was crafted in in a land far away from the grey skies and the blue-green waters of the Atlantic Ocean. It was created in the vast, landlocked steppes of Central Asia, at the ancient crossroads of trade and culture, in a fabled town called Samarkand. This algae-green cup, almost oblong in shape, similar to the brush washing bowl of a Chinese calligrapher, has a handle shaped like a hornless dragon: ambiguous iconography indeed, as a dragon can be either malevolent or benevolent. The cup had belonged to Ulugh Beg (who lived from to ), a Sultan, an astronomer, a mathematician, a connoisseur of arts and literature, the grandson of Timur, the great conqueror who was the founder of the Timurid Dynasty which lasted from to

Ulugh was also an ancestor of Zahiruddin Mohammad Babur, who laid the foundation of another resplendent dynasty. The Mughal dynasty ( – ) became famous the world over for it

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This unique wine cup, made of white nephrite jade, is an outstanding example of jade craftsmanship and is one of the most exquisite surviving objects from the court of the Mughal dynasty that ruled the Indian subcontinent from about to

The cup was made in for Shah Jahan who ruled the Mughal Empire from to Shah Jahan was descended from ledare Timur, a ruthless Central Asian conqueror, who swept across the Middle East and India during the 14th century. Timur's fame was such that far away in England he was celebrated in Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlaine two centuries after his lifetime.

The cup is shaped like a gourd with the handle carved into the head of a ram. The base features acanthus leaves radiating out from a lotus flower which fryst vatten raised to form a pedestal for the cup. The different features of the cup reflect the variety of cultural and artistic influences that were welcomed at the Mughal court. Persian in their cultural background and Indian by adoption, the