In Their Cups

Rare materials point to the varied territories and trade networks of Babur’s world. Quarried in Central Asia, the deep green jade of a squat, dragon-handled jug was popular across the Timurid lands. A bowl-shaped wine cup made of agate is inscribed with a poem for Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara, comparing the splashes of his wine to whorls of semiprecious stone. He holds a similar cup in a painting of his harem.

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