1938.109: Découpé Flowering Tree

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1938.109

Title

Découpé Flowering Tree

Classification

Albums

Work Type

album folio

Date

late 16th century

Places

Creation Place: Middle East

Period

Ottoman period

Culture

Ottoman

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/216630

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Opaque water colored paper cutouts and gold on paper

Dimensions

22.1 × 12.4 cm (8 11/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
frame: 48.9 × 38.7 × 1.6 cm (19 1/4 × 15 1/4 × 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt

Accession Year

1938

Object Number

1938.109

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Sheila Blair, ed., Images of Paradise In Islamic Art, exh. cat., University of Tennessee Press (Austin, TX, 1991), page 100/figue 38a

Exhibition History

• The Here and the Hereafter: Images of Paradise in Islamic Art, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 03/16/1991 - 05/26/1991; Asia Society Galleries, New York, 06/27/1991 - 09/06/1991; Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Springfield, 04/26/1992 - 06/21/1992
• The Ottomans and their Contemporaries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/1992 - 05/17/1992
• Earthly Paradise: Gardens in Islamic Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/08/1993 - 08/22/1993

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