1957.139: A Woman Tests Her Suitor's Loyalty (recto); Text (verso), folio from a manuscript of the Tuhfat al-Ahrar (The Gift to the Noble) by Jami

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1957.139

People

Abdallah

Title

A Woman Tests Her Suitor's Loyalty (recto); Text (verso), folio from a manuscript of the Tuhfat al-Ahrar (The Gift to the Noble) by Jami

Classification

Manuscripts

Work Type

manuscript folio

Date

1525-1535

Places

Creation Place: Central Asia, Uzbekistan, Bukhara

Period

Shaybanid period

Culture

Islamic

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/216433

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions

folio: 27.8 x 19.9 cm (10 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of John Goelet

Accession Year

1957

Object Number

1957.139

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Georges Marteau and Henri Vever, Miniatures persanes; tirées des collections de MM. Henry d'Allemagne, Claude Anet, Henri Aubry...et exposées au Musée des arts décoratifs, juin -- octobre 1912., exh. cat., Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie (Paris, 1913), vol. II, p. 101, no. 123
• Armenag Sakisian, La Miniature Persane du XIIe au XVIIe Siecle, Les Editions G. van Oest (Paris, France, 1929), pl. 75
• Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 52, 72-73, no. 24, ill.

Exhibition History

• Arab and Persian Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/10/1981 - 03/09/1981

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