2014.380: Wafer Seal Case with Flowers, Hazelnuts, and Butterfly
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2014.380
- People
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Muhammad Husayn Shirazi
- Title
- Wafer Seal Case with Flowers, Hazelnuts, and Butterfly
- Classification
- Boxes
- Work Type
- box
- Date
- c. 1875-1890
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
- Period
- Qajar period
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/352137
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard
- Dimensions
- 1.5 × 2.8 × 13.5 cm (9/16 × 1 1/8 × 5 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription:
یا حسین ابن علي
O Husayn, son of Ali!
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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
- 2014.380
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Flat case with sliding lid and rounded ends. The top is in horizontal format with three panels containing birds, flowers, and hazelnuts. On the base a central panel contains a view of a town clustered at the edge of a bay, with mountains in the distance. To the left and right are floating bouquets.
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. 146, cat. 142
Verification Level
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