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Pen Box with Amorous Couples and Portrait Medallions
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Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format with three cartouches framed by elaborate gold scrollwork, all set against a black background filled with floating blossoms. The central cartouche features a vignette of couples reclining against cushions in an interior setting; they drink wine and embrace. To the left and right are portrait busts of European women with flowers in their hair. The sides are composed and decorated in the same manner with couples engaged in amorous play and portrait busts of European women. The ends bear portrait busts of men. The base is painted with an arabesque on a gold 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 Amorous Couples and Portrait Medallions
Description:
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends.
The top is decorated in horizontal format with three cartouches framed by elaborate gold scrollwork, all set against a black background filled with floating blossoms.
The central cartouche features a vignette of couples reclining against cushions in an interior setting; they drink wine and embrace.
To the left and right are portrait busts of European women with flowers in their hair.
The sides are composed and decorated in the same manner with couples engaged in amorous play and portrait busts of European women.
The ends bear portrait busts of men.
The base is painted with an arabesque on a gold background.
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