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The polo game
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Players of polo. The scene is on the right side of a sheet decorated with a vine pattern in blue paint. Around the scene is a pasted frame of undecorated paper with colored frame lines and a gold braid within black frame lines. At the top is a rectangle with a center piece featuring a text written in gold in Persian script against a flower and vine motif.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineHet polospel. c. 1600 - c. 1625. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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