Our client's panel of eight (8) Qajar period Persian ceramic tiles depicting a hunt each measure approximately 14 1/4 by 9 1/2 inches, and feature in a banner at the top a line from a Ghazaliyat poem by Hafez Shirazi, aka Hafiz of Shiraz (1325-1390). Mounted in 20th century frame with shimmering turquoise painted finish measuring 38 by 47 by 2 inches with cleats mounted to rear. The poem reads...
"Whether I am good or bad, you judge yourself. You reap what you sow, find what you seek."
The full poem is believed to read as follows...
Let not the pious judge the meek;
Each for his own deeds will speak.
Whether I’m
good or bad, you judge yourself;
You reap what
you sow, find what you seek.
Everyone is
seeking love, sober or drunk;
Everywhere a
house of love, yet so unique.
I submit my
head on the tavern’s bricks,
If you don’t
understand, just take a peek.
Let me keep my
hope of eternal grace,
Behind the
veil, who is good, who the freak?
Not only I fell
out of virtuous path,
My father too,
treaded that path oblique.
Hafiz, on your
deathbed, bring the cup to your cheek.
You go from the tavern straight to the heaven’s peak.