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Pen Box with Shams-i Tabrizi Casting Rumi's Book into the Water
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Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format with a central cartouche, with is flanked by birds amidst floating bouquets. The central image depicts a well-known episode when Shams Tabrizi casts Mawlana’s book into the water, as related in Haji Bektas Veli’s Maqalat (Conversations). The sides are covered with birds and floating blossoms interspersed with portrait busts of young and old dervishes. The base and compartment are painted with a minute 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 Shams-i Tabrizi Casting Rumi's Book into the Water
Description:
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends.
The top is decorated in horizontal format with a central cartouche, with is flanked by birds amidst floating bouquets.
The central image depicts a well-known episode when Shams Tabrizi casts Mawlana’s book into the water, as related in Haji Bektas Veli’s Maqalat (Conversations).
The sides are covered with birds and floating blossoms interspersed with portrait busts of young and old dervishes.
The base and compartment are painted with a minute gold arabesque on a red background.
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