2014.340: Pen Box with the Virgin and Child
Artists' Tools
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2014.340
- People
-
Abu’l-Hasan al-Ghaffari Naqqash-Bashi
`Abd al-Vahhab Muzahhib-Bashi Shirazi
- Title
- Pen Box with the Virgin and Child
- Classification
- Artists' Tools
- Work Type
- pen box
- Date
- 1854-1855
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
- Period
- Qajar period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/351827
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer over brass and tin layers on pasteboard
- Dimensions
- 3.2 × 3.6 × 21.8 cm (1 1/4 × 1 7/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
-
inscription:
راقمه ابوالحسن الغفاری نقاشباشی
یا وهّاب ۱۲۷۱
Painted by Abu al-Hasan al-Ghaffari, Chief Painter
O Munificent One! 1854-55
-
inscription:
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
- 2014.340
- 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 vertical format with an oblong cartouche containing the Virgin and Child, a white-bearded man, and a winged putto. The rest of the top and the sides are covered with densely painted illumination. The base and outer surfaces of the compartment are painted with a gold arabesque on a red background. Inside the compartment, multicolored flowers are painted on a gold background.
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. 140, cat. 122
- David Roxburgh and Mary McWilliams, ed., Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 152-153, cat. 63
Exhibition History
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