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Pen Box with a Visit to a Sage
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Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format with vignettes of figures and animals set in a continuous landscape. The scenes include white-bearded sages meeting with princely youths; a mare and foal with a sleeping attendant; elegantly dressed young men and women and a white-bearded figure. The sides and ends are composed in a similar manner, with vignettes that include a group of young women in European dress; two horsemen and hunters; and a group of young women in European dress reading letters with a putto and a white-bearded figure. On the base, a landscape scene with tiny figures is painted in gold on a red ground.
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 a Visit to a Sage
Description:
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends.
The top is decorated in horizontal format with vignettes of figures and animals set in a continuous landscape.
The scenes include white-bearded sages meeting with princely youths; a mare and foal with a sleeping attendant; elegantly dressed young men and women and a white-bearded figure.
The sides and ends are composed in a similar manner, with vignettes that include a group of young women in European dress; two horsemen and hunters; and a group of young women in European dress reading letters with a putto and a white-bearded figure.
On the base, a landscape scene with tiny figures is painted in gold on a red ground.
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