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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 388923, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome to the forum, Ron.</p><p>Your pretty screen is Persian, and as Johnny said, not very old.</p><p>As Bakers pointed out, the Mughal culture was Persian, which is why post-Mughal Indo-Persian art looks very similar to art from Persia proper.</p><p><br /></p><p>It can be confusing, especially when it is more like folk art, like your screen. One way to tell the difference is that Indo-Persian Mughals on thrones wore a lot of jewellery. Your throned ruler doesn&#039;t.</p><p>Another way is to see if there are any women in the scene, and look at their dress. I managed to spot one dancing girl, and she is wearing Persian dress.</p><p>The girl is the little figure on the lower left:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]134838[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Indian Mughal period dancing girls:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcountercurrents.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F08%2Fmughal-art.jpg&amp;sp=13714e3ce736283987513d73f94db10a" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Indian Mughal ruler Shah Jahan, with jewellery:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhistoryreimagined.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F04%2Fimg91c.jpg%3Fw%3D1174&amp;sp=f8e0cfda16ab08c882a1cffa4530d113" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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