The quality of the workmanship allows it to be attributed to an imperial workshop in Constantinople.
This does not cast doubt on the bronze, like the diptych, being the product of an imperial workshop and an official object.
There is a unique Chinese lacquerware table, made in the imperial workshops during the reign of Emperor Xuande.
The size of the commission was completely unprecedented, and stretched even the huge imperial workshop.
"It was probably made in the imperial workshops of Constantinople."
The number of tilemakers employed by the imperial workshops dwindled so that by 1566 only three remained.
During the first half of the 18th century, many Mughal-trained artists left the imperial workshop to work at Rajput courts.
Most likely, he worked collaboratively with the professional casters and mold makers in the imperial workshops.
He is not known to have worked at Akbar or Jahangir's imperial workshops.
From about 1572 he headed the imperial workshop of the Emperor Akbar and "it was under his guidance that Mughal style came to maturity".