Chogan at Naqsh-e Jahan
7x5" / Unframed Print
$32.49
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Chogan at Naqsh-e Jahan
$32.49
Materials
Fine Art Prints
Premium archival matte fine art paper, 200–230 gsm. Smooth, bright white surface with an instant-dry coating that resists fingerprints and smudging. Printed with archival inks for accurate color and high-contrast reproduction. FSC-certified sustainable paper.
Framed Prints
Solid wood frame, roughly 0.875″ wide, available in light, black, or white. Protected by shatterproof optical-grade acrylic — lighter and safer than glass, and it ships without risk of breakage. Dry-mounted to foam core with a kraft paper dust cover and hanging wire installed, ready to hang out of the box.
Production
Every piece is made to order. Nothing sits in a warehouse — your print is produced after you order it, at the facility closest to your address. That means it reaches you faster, travels less distance, and arrives with a smaller carbon footprint than something shipped from a single central location.
A game of chogan under way in Naqsh-e Jahan, painted in the manner of a Persian miniature and seen from the raised viewpoint those paintings use, so the whole square opens out behind the players. Ten riders in turbans and bright coats work a ball across the sand in the foreground; beyond them the arcades run the length of the square, and the great buildings stand along its sides under a flat blue sky.
- The Shah Mosque at the far end, its portal and paired minarets in blue tile
- Sheikh Lotfollah's dome at the left, Ali Qapu with its columned balcony at the right
- Two stone goalposts at each end of the ground
- Riders in cinnabar, indigo, green and gold on bay, grey and chestnut horses
- Cypress, water channels and fountains laid out down the middle of the square
- An illuminated blue and gold border on all four sides
Shah Abbas laid the square out from 1598 and it was used exactly like this — a polo ground with the palace on one side. The stone goalposts are still standing at either end today, which is the detail visitors always miss. The balcony on Ali Qapu is the royal box: the shah watched the game from it. Chogan itself is old enough to appear in the Shahnameh, and UNESCO added it to the intangible heritage list in 2017.
Perfect for
- Living rooms and studies that can carry a densely detailed piece
- Collectors of Persian miniature painting
- Riders, polo players and horse lovers
- Anyone with a connection to Isfahan