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Pen Box with Elderly Saint and Riverine Landscapes
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Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends.The top is decorated in vertical format with three cartouches. In the center, an elderly figure, perhaps a saint, with his eyes closed, clasps his hands; in the background is a white church with two domes. In the lower cartouche, a donkey bearing packs passes between buildings in the middle ground, and a waterwheel holds the foreground. The upper cartouche features water fowl and a white building. The sides are similarly composed, with a vignette of dervishes or holy men in the center and rural scenes at the left and right. The base and sliding compartment are decorated with gold arabesque on a red background.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
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.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar
Title: Pen Box with Elderly Saint and Riverine Landscapes
Description:
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends.
The top is decorated in vertical format with three cartouches.
In the center, an elderly figure, perhaps a saint, with his eyes closed, clasps his hands; in the background is a white church with two domes.
In the lower cartouche, a donkey bearing packs passes between buildings in the middle ground, and a waterwheel holds the foreground.
The upper cartouche features water fowl and a white building.
The sides are similarly composed, with a vignette of dervishes or holy men in the center and rural scenes at the left and right.
The base and sliding compartment are decorated with gold arabesque on a red background.
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