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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.138
Title
Female Cupbearer (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of Kitab fi Ma'rifat al-Hiyal al-Handasiya (Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) of al-Jazari
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript folio
Date
1354
Places
Creation Place: Africa, Egypt, Cairo
Period
Mamluk period
Culture
Arab
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216544

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
folio: 40 x 28 cm (15 3/4 x 11 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Hervey E. Wetzel
Accession Year
1919
Object Number
1919.138
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eric Schroeder, Persian Miniatures in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1942), no. 1
  • Wilson Bishai, Humanities in the Arabic-Islamic World, W.C. Brown Co. (Dubuque, Iowa, 1973), Pg. 104
  • The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari (Dordrecht and Boston, 1974), pl. XXI
  • Science Museum, London, Science and Technology in Islam: An Exhibition at the Science Museum, exh. cat., Crescent Moon Press (London, 1976), no. 342
  • Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 9, 11, 15, 20-21, no. 3, ill.
  • [Reproduction only], [Exhibition opening listing with images], Harvard University Gazette, (February 1981).

Exhibition History

  • Arab and Persian Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/10/1981 - 03/09/1981
  • Islamic Art: The Power of Pattern, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/23/1989 - 01/17/1990
  • Paintings for Princes: The Art of the Book in Islam, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/27/1990 - 03/25/1990
  • 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/18/2023 - 04/15/2024

Verification Level

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