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Wafer Seal Case with Flowers, Hazelnuts, and Butterfly
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Flat case with sliding lid and rounded ends. The top is in horizontal format with three panels containing birds, flowers, and hazelnuts. On the base a central panel contains a view of a town clustered at the edge of a bay, with mountains in the distance. To the left and right are floating bouquets.
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: Wafer Seal Case with Flowers, Hazelnuts, and Butterfly
Description:
Flat case with sliding lid and rounded ends.
The top is in horizontal format with three panels containing birds, flowers, and hazelnuts.
On the base a central panel contains a view of a town clustered at the edge of a bay, with mountains in the distance.
To the left and right are floating bouquets.
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