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Portrait Jewel of Emperor Jahangir
early 1600s
- Medium
- Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Image: 4.8 x 3.2 cm (1 7/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Mughal India, court of Jahangir (reigned 1605–27)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The fourth Mughal emperor of India, Jahangir, had tiny portraits of himself made to give as gifts to his friends, family, and nobles of the court as a sign of royal favor. These portraits were mounted and worn as jewels or turban ornaments. The carpet or textile under his hands references the covered rail of a balcony where the emperor addressed the public three times a day to hear complaints or petitions.
