Here in Sleep of Rustam by Sultan Muhammad we see the traditional view of Rustan. Compare the stripes to the two saddle blankets. Rustam was not originally a Persian legend he came from further east.
The striped horse blankets are from a tiger possibly the Siberian
or Amur tiger. I checked with my my son Monty who is better at identifying animals from their pelt then anyone I know. H e also
identified the other horse blanket as Leopard.
The man to the far left is the Khan and perhaps even the Gur
Khan; Kuchlug. He was the last Gur Khan or King of the Kara Khitai. Gur Khan is
Mongol/Khitan for supreme khan equivalent to Shahanshah or Shah of Shahs.
When the Liao were at their peak and the Jurchen were their
vassal they forced the Jurchen to pay their vassalage with falcons. In fact the
tribute roads were called Falcon Roads.
See China Under Jurchen Rule: Essays on
Chin Intellectual and Cultural History (S U N Y Series in Chinese
Philosophy...Jan 1995 by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman and Stephen H. West page 26
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