Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden. Dimensions: 8.5 in. high 30.20 in. wide (21.6 cm high 11.87 cm wide). Date: ca. 1430.The youth offering a cup of wine to a maiden reflects a Persian courtly ideal expressed in poetry as well as painting. But it was common practice for Timurid artists to turn to Chinese models for pictorial inspiration. In this case, Chinese influence can be seen in the arrangement of figures on a horizontal groundline set against a neutral, undefined background; in the identity and sinuous style of the flowering prunus tree that braces the princess; and in the material used for the painting surface. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.