1960.673: Book Cover and Flap
Manuscripts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1960.673
- Title
- Book Cover and Flap
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript cover
- Date
- 16th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
- Period
- Safavid period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/216087
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Stamped and découpé leather and painted lacquer
- Dimensions
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30.48 x 9.21 cm (12 x 3 5/8 in.)
Frame: 54.6cm x71.8cm (21 1/2 x 28 1.4 inches)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr.
- Accession Year
- 1960
- Object Number
- 1960.673
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity (London, Thames & Hudson, 2021)., pp. 300-301, no. 36
Exhibition History
- Exhibition of Islamic Objects, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, 01/28/1972 - 02/28/1972
- Islamic Art From the Collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/1974
- The Heavenly Court: Persian Poetry and Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/09/1985 - 03/31/1985
- A Sea in a Jug: The Welch Collection of Art from the Islamic World and Later South Asia, Colby College Museum of Art, 02/20/2020 - 11/01/2020
Verification Level
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