- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2014.355
- People
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`Abbas Shirazi
- Title
- Pen Box with European Woman and Eagles in Medallions
- Classification
- Artists' Tools
- Work Type
- pen box
- Date
- 1878-1879
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
- Period
- Qajar period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/351856
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard
- Dimensions
- 3.9 × 3.9 × 23.6 cm (1 9/16 × 1 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: یا عباس ۱۲۹۵
O Abbas! 1878-79
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inscription: یا عباس ۱۲۹۵
- Provenance
- 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
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- 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
- 2014.355
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in vertical format with three oval medallions. In the center is a three quarter length portrait of a woman; the upper and lower medallions contain eagles. The sides each feature a circular medallion in the center with a bust length female portrait, flanked by oval medallions containing pairs of male and female ruminants. The base and compartment are painted with a gold arabesque on a black background.
- Publication History
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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. 153, cat. 164
David Roxburgh and Mary McWilliams, ed., Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2017), p. 34, fig. 15; pp. 156-157, cat. 71
- Exhibition History
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