Part Three The Anatomy of the Folio · A Census of Surviving Panels
Tekke Folio · MMXXV الفصل الثالث
Finding · 14 of 26

The lion outlived the horse: devotion endures longer than ornament.

1,284
Surviving Panelscataloged · 1640 – 1899
By Zoomorphic Form  ·  n = 1,284
Lion of God asad allāh — Bektashi devotional 41.0%
Bird & Simurgh stork, peacock, hoopoe 28.0%
Horse Duldul, Buraq — courtly commissions 17.0%
Tiger & other rare provincial workshops 9.0%
Aniconic hilye script-only, no animal form 5.0%

Horse panels — the most secular, the most gilded — were the first sold to collectors. The lion, bound to tekke walls by oath, remained.

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