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Pen Box with European Women and Other Figures in Landscape
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Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format with three vignettes of women in European clothing reclining in landscape; the vignettes are separated by two oval medallions containing bust length portraits of European women. In the central vignette, a haloed woman is attended by a female attendant and a winged angel. On the sides, bust-length portraits of women in medallions alternate with pastoral images of women and children, and images of reclining men in Persian dress. The base and sliding compartment are decorated with a 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 European Women and Other Figures in Landscape
Description:
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends.
The top is decorated in horizontal format with three vignettes of women in European clothing reclining in landscape; the vignettes are separated by two oval medallions containing bust length portraits of European women.
In the central vignette, a haloed woman is attended by a female attendant and a winged angel.
On the sides, bust-length portraits of women in medallions alternate with pastoral images of women and children, and images of reclining men in Persian dress.
The base and sliding compartment are decorated with a gold arabesque on a red background.
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