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Pen Box with Meeting of Shams-i Tabrizi and Rumi, and Other Figural Scenes
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Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format. An oval medallion with a portrait bust of a young woman is flanked by four lobed cartouches with figural scenes. The inner cartouches contain groups of dervishes; the one on the left may be identified as the meeting between Shams-i Tabrizi and Rumi. The outer cartouches contain women in European dress with children and attendants. The sides are decorated with a series of landscapes with figures in European dress, separated by oval medallions with portrait busts of men and women in European dress. The base is 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 Meeting of Shams-i Tabrizi and Rumi, and Other Figural Scenes
Description:
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends.
The top is decorated in horizontal format.
An oval medallion with a portrait bust of a young woman is flanked by four lobed cartouches with figural scenes.
The inner cartouches contain groups of dervishes; the one on the left may be identified as the meeting between Shams-i Tabrizi and Rumi.
The outer cartouches contain women in European dress with children and attendants.
The sides are decorated with a series of landscapes with figures in European dress, separated by oval medallions with portrait busts of men and women in European dress.
The base is decorated with a gold arabesque on a red background.
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