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Pen Box with Riverscape, Female Portraits, and Lions in Medallions
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Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format with seven cartouches. The central cartouche contains a moon-lit landscape; this is flanked by four circular medallions with female portraits, and at the far left and right oblong cartouches with lions. The interstitial space is filled with a gold arabesque on a black background. The sides are similarly composed with an elongated cartouche in the center with a rustic genre scene. A continuous design of birds and flowers covers the ends. On the base, a gold arabesque is painted 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 Riverscape, Female Portraits, and Lions in Medallions
Description:
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends.
The top is decorated in horizontal format with seven cartouches.
The central cartouche contains a moon-lit landscape; this is flanked by four circular medallions with female portraits, and at the far left and right oblong cartouches with lions.
The interstitial space is filled with a gold arabesque on a black background.
The sides are similarly composed with an elongated cartouche in the center with a rustic genre scene.
A continuous design of birds and flowers covers the ends.
On the base, a gold arabesque is painted on a red background.
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