Harvard Art Museums > 2014.336: Pen Box with a Visit to a Sage Artists' Tools Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Pen Box with a Visit to a Sage , 2014.336,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/351824. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2014.336 Title Pen Box with a Visit to a Sage Classification Artists' Tools Work Type pen box Date 1870-1871 Places Creation Place: Middle East, Iran Period Qajar period Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/351824 Physical Descriptions Medium Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard Dimensions 4.1 × 3.9 × 24 cm (1 5/8 × 1 9/16 × 9 7/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: یا صاحب الزمان ۱۲۸۷ O Lord of Time! 1870-71 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Ezzat-Malek Soudavar, Geneva, Switzerland (by 2014), by descent; to her son Abolala Soudavar, Houston, Texas (2014), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2014. Note: Ezzat-Malek Soudavar (1913-2014) formed this collection over a period of sixty years. She purchased the works of art on the international art market. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar Accession Year 2014 Object Number 2014.336 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format with three cartouches containing figural vignettes. In the center, a white bearded sage is seated with his disciples, one of whom is female. The cartouches at right and left each feature a young woman in European dress with a naked baby, a white bearded man, and a female attendant. The sides are decorated with a continuous landscape with multiple bridges and hunters. The base and compartment are decorated with gold arabesque on a red ground. The inscription, written in gold on the top, was used as a punning signature by several artists from the late seventeenth to late nineteenth century. Publication History Massumeh Farhad and Mary McWilliams, ed., A Collector’s Passion: Ezzat-Malek Soudavar and Persian Lacquer, Harvard Art Museums and Freer/Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution (Cambridge, MA/Washington, D.C., 2017), p. 130, cat. 94 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
