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Pen Box with the Virgin and Child, and Parrots in Medallions
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Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in vertical format with three cartouches surrounded by dense gold arabesque. The central cartouche contains a Virgin and Child; above and below are parrots. The sides are composed in a similar manner with an oblong cartouche in the center that features animals in a mountainous landscape; to the right and left are small riverine landscapes. On the base, an arabesque is painted in gold on a red background. The artist Samirumi occasionally adds the number 303 to his signature. It has been suggested that this stands for the name “Baqir,” the letters of which have this numerical value.
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 the Virgin and Child, and Parrots in Medallions
Description:
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends.
The top is decorated in vertical format with three cartouches surrounded by dense gold arabesque.
The central cartouche contains a Virgin and Child; above and below are parrots.
The sides are composed in a similar manner with an oblong cartouche in the center that features animals in a mountainous landscape; to the right and left are small riverine landscapes.
On the base, an arabesque is painted in gold on a red background.
The artist Samirumi occasionally adds the number 303 to his signature.
It has been suggested that this stands for the name “Baqir,” the letters of which have this numerical value.
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