Zal and the Simorgh
5x7" / Unframed Print
$32.49
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Zal and the Simorgh
$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 Persian miniature of the white-haired boy Zal riding the Simorgh across a night sky. The bird fills the upper half in green and copper, wings spread and tail streaming in long ribbons; below, a blue river winds through gold and green hills where gazelles, a lion and a leopard move among the cypresses. زال و سیمرغ is set in a cartouche at the foot of the page, and an illuminated border of vine and rosette runs the whole sheet.
- The Simorgh in green, copper and gold, with a crested head and a tail of trailing plumes
- Zal seated calmly on her back in a gold brocade coat, his hair white
- A dove and a second bird flanking them against a starred blue sky
- Gazelles, a lion and a leopard along a winding river below
- A gold tazhib border of arabesque and flowering rosettes
Sam, Zal's father, saw the white hair as an omen and left the newborn on Mount Alborz. The Simorgh took him to her nest and raised him. When she finally returned him to his father she gave him one of her feathers to burn if he ever needed her — and he burned it years later, when his wife Rudabeh could not deliver their son. The child was Rostam. The same bird turns up again in Attar's Conference of the Birds, where thirty birds cross the world to find the Simorgh and discover that they themselves are si morgh, thirty birds.
Perfect for
- Living rooms, bedrooms and reading corners
- A nursery or child's room
- Collectors of Persian miniature painting
- Readers of the Shahnameh and of myth