Chogan Painting

Persian miniature painting on camelbone with high quality wooden frame.

Chogan, known also as polo, is a sporting team game with horses and a version of the modern polo game.
From time immemorial it was considered an aristocratic game and held in a separate field, on specially trained horses. Nowadays, chogan is played in Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.
Polo was invented and first played in Iran (or ancient Persia) thousands of years ago. The original name of polo is “Chogan” and in Iran the game is still referred to as “Chogan”.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) accepted Chogan as an Iranian horse-riding game on the world body’s list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

 

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Description

Persian miniature painting on camelbone.

The frame is made with traditional Khatamkari technique in Iran.

Khatamkari is an inlaying technique, the Persian version of marquetry. It is done by decorating a wooden or metallic object in various designs with very small pieces of wood, ivory, bone, and metal such as gold, silver, brass, aluminum, and twisted wire. Khatmkari is done on the surface of different objects such as jewelry boxes, clocks, photo frames, chessboards, pipes, tables, and a great variety of decorative objects.

Size : 36x16cm (Frame)

Material : Wood, Camelbone, Copper

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