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Album of Fingernail Artwork
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This codex-format album consists of 19 relief images created by the pressure of the artist’s fingernail on paper (san`at-i nākhun). Specimens include calligraphic, floral, and figural compositions. Many of the pages form double-page spreads, as indicated in list of folios below.
1 Pink flyleaf, recto: owner’s inscription with date 1284 H / 1867-68 CE
2 Pink flyleaf (blank)
3 verso: Couplet of Persian poetry written diagonally in nasta`liq script
Forms double page with 4 recto
4 recto: Persian Poetry written in shikasta script
Forms double page with 3 verso
5 verso: Qur’an 25:35 (Aya al-Nur), beginning to middle of verse
Forms double page with 6 recto
6 recto: Pious Text in Arabic
Forms double page with 5 verso
7 recto: Undeciphered text in highly stylized script
8 verso: Vase with Flowers
9 verso: Qajar Youth Kneeling with Waterpipe
Forms double page with 10 recto
10 recto: Qajar Man with Seated Against Cushion
Forms double page with 9 verso
11 verso: Woman in European Garments
Forms double page with 12 recto
12 recto: Man in European Garments
Forms double page with 11 verso
13 verso: Rooster
Forms double page with 14 recto
14 recto: Phoenix
Forms double page with 13 verso
15 recto: Calligraphic Composition of Persian Poetry
16 verso: Three Partially Clad European Woman
17 verso: Bird Perched on a Flowering Prunus Branch
18 verso: A Man on Horseback Bending Downward to Grasp the Horns of a Gazelle
Forms double page with 19 Recto
19 recto: An Emaciated Nag and a Fatted Cow
Forms double page with 18 verso
20 recto: Floral design with Birds and Fish
21 recto: Seated Courtier Holding a Sword
22 Pink flyleaf (blank)
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Ezzat-Malek Soudavar Geneva Switzerland (by 2014) by descent; to her son Abolala Soudavar Houston Texas (2014) loan; to Harvard Art Museums 2015.
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 Loan from A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar
Title: Album of Fingernail Artwork
Description:
This codex-format album consists of 19 relief images created by the pressure of the artist’s fingernail on paper (san`at-i nākhun).
Specimens include calligraphic, floral, and figural compositions.
Many of the pages form double-page spreads, as indicated in list of folios below.
1 Pink flyleaf, recto: owner’s inscription with date 1284 H / 1867-68 CE
2 Pink flyleaf (blank)
3 verso: Couplet of Persian poetry written diagonally in nasta`liq script
Forms double page with 4 recto
4 recto: Persian Poetry written in shikasta script
Forms double page with 3 verso
5 verso: Qur’an 25:35 (Aya al-Nur), beginning to middle of verse
Forms double page with 6 recto
6 recto: Pious Text in Arabic
Forms double page with 5 verso
7 recto: Undeciphered text in highly stylized script
8 verso: Vase with Flowers
9 verso: Qajar Youth Kneeling with Waterpipe
Forms double page with 10 recto
10 recto: Qajar Man with Seated Against Cushion
Forms double page with 9 verso
11 verso: Woman in European Garments
Forms double page with 12 recto
12 recto: Man in European Garments
Forms double page with 11 verso
13 verso: Rooster
Forms double page with 14 recto
14 recto: Phoenix
Forms double page with 13 verso
15 recto: Calligraphic Composition of Persian Poetry
16 verso: Three Partially Clad European Woman
17 verso: Bird Perched on a Flowering Prunus Branch
18 verso: A Man on Horseback Bending Downward to Grasp the Horns of a Gazelle
Forms double page with 19 Recto
19 recto: An Emaciated Nag and a Fatted Cow
Forms double page with 18 verso
20 recto: Floral design with Birds and Fish
21 recto: Seated Courtier Holding a Sword
22 Pink flyleaf (blank).
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