Ornament in the shape of a conventionalized tulip flower and leaf.
Tulips originated in Persia. The name tulip was derived from the flower's resemblence to the to the turbans worn by Turkish men -tulipan. Persian myth tells of a young man, Ferhad, who was in love with a disinterested girl, Shirin. When she rejected him outright, Ferhad went out in the desert and wept mournfully. As his tears pooled in the sand, they became beautiful tulips. Ferhad died of a broken heart, but the tulips remained.
Stylized motif of this flower popular with nomadic Turkoman tribes.
A conventionalized pattern suggesting the tulip flower and leaf, carved or painted.
Tulip (Tulipa) is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Liliaceae. They are native to southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia from Anatolia and Iran (where the flower is suggested on the nation's flag) east to northeast China and Japan. The centre of diversity of the genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan.