- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2014.344
- People
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Fathallah Shirazi
- Title
- Pen Box with Flowers and Birds in Grisaille Technique
- Classification
- Artists' Tools
- Work Type
- pen box
- Date
- 1882-1883
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Shiraz
- Period
- Qajar period
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/351874
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard
- Dimensions
- 3 × 2.9 × 18.5 cm (1 3/16 × 1 1/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription:
بجهة تقدیم حضور نواب وآلا امیرزاده محمد ابراهیم میرزا سرتیپ دام اقباله العالی سمت اتمام پذیرفت رقم کمترین بنده فتحالله شیرازی
Finished for dedication to his Highness Prince Muhammad Ibrahim Mirza, the General, may his high fortune be perpetuated. Work of the humblest servant Fathallah Shirazi.
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inscription:
- 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
- 2014.344
- 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 horizontal format. The top and sides are similarly decorated with birds perching in flowering branches, painted in black on an off-white background. On the base a vine is painted in gold on an off-white 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), pp. 46-47, fig. 16; p. 149, cat. 151
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