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Plant and Insect Study: Caper; Prosperina Butterfly
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Department of Drawings
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Loan from the Collection of Edouard Sandoz
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Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation
Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation
A portion of a red tapestry woven square (tabula). The design is characterized by mirror symmetry. Animals and birds flank a large abstract, jeweled candelabra plant emerging from ...
Band with Dancers and Plant Motifs
Band with Dancers and Plant Motifs
A red tapestry band features dancers and plant motifs. The red squares outlined in white contain four multicolored dancers with raised arms woven in yellow, pink, and blue wefts. E...
Mirror Case with Birds and Flowers
Mirror Case with Birds and Flowers
Among the most characteristic and compelling art forms of the Qajar period (1779–1924) in Iran are works in “lacquer.” Technically distinct from East Asian lacquers, these are esse...
Small Dish with Stylized Rock Dove
Small Dish with Stylized Rock Dove
Except for the brown rim, all the decoration on this small, round dish is painted in shades of cobalt blue. A rotund bird with backward-turning head neatly fills the interior. Arou...