2014.329: Pen Box with Woman Wearing Beaded Necklace, Attended by Elderly Man
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2014.329
- People
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Haydar `Ali ibn Muhammad Isma`il
- Title
- Pen Box with Woman Wearing Beaded Necklace, Attended by Elderly Man
- Classification
- Artists' Tools
- Work Type
- pen box
- Date
- 1879-1880
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
- Period
- Qajar period
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/351876
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard
- Dimensions
- 3.8 × 3.7 × 21.9 cm (1 1/2 × 1 7/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription:
حيدر علي سنه ۱۲۹۷ [ambiguous date]
Haydar Ali, the year [probably] 1879-80
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inscription:
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- 2014.329
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format with bouquets on either side of a central medallion. In the medallion a young woman with a flower in her hair lifts her beaded necklace with one hand. To the left is a white-bearded man. The sides bear landscapes with fanciful architecture and small figures. The base is decorated with a gold arabesque on a red background. The date (written on the top at the left) is problematic. It appears to read 1297, but the number nine is written backwards.
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. 147, cat. 145
Verification Level
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