Rim Inscription · Naskh
نور از درون سنگ
طلا در کنار آن
طلا در کنار آن
Light dwells inside the stone, and gold keeps watch beside it — patient as a lamp held to translucent skin.
— Court verse, ca. 1657
Folio 07 · The Lapidary's Hand
Light, carved
out of stone.
A pale nephrite cup, set with kundan gold and foil-backed gems, held in a black vitrine — the documented ground of the imperial workshop, never cream.
Nephrite · Ruby · Emerald