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LADY WITH A MIRROR
School of Riza-i 'Abbasi, Ispahan, 1618 or 1627
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, USA
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"O, thee whose lips receive the water of life!
allow not those of the cup (1) come to kiss them.
Oh! if you do, may I lose my manhood if I do not drink the blood of the flask (2),
for who is he, this cup, to dare to put his lips to yours?"
Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat (quatrain 352)
(1) In Persian, rim and lip are synonymous.
(2) The worst form of vengeance.
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