Bird Perching on a Blossoming Branch

This miniature and its neighbour form a double-page spread in the Polovtsov Album, matching each other in their subject matter and its treatment. Here too, the composition includes depictions of insects and small flowering shrubs in the lower part of the picture. Again, one branch is broken.
The creator of this work evidently belonged to the “European” tendency within the Isfahan school of painting. The figure of the bird in the miniature is treated in a three-dimensional manner – covered with a greyish hue and modelled with strokes of dark grey and black. The subtlest gradations of tone in the colouring of the flowers and leaves, as well as the texture of the petals, are also conveyed using European techniques.