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Calligrapher:
Vali ibn Ali Takulu  Search this
Medium:
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper (text and illustrations); brown leather tooled binding with lacquered cartouches (cover)
Dimensions:
H x W x D (Closed): 35.5 × 24.5 × 8.5 cm (14 × 9 5/8 × 3 3/8 in)
Type:
Manuscript
Origin:
Iran
Date:
1612 (1021 A.H.) (text); ca. 1800-1850 (illustrations and cover)
Period:
Safavid period (text) and Qajar period (illustrations and cover)
Provenance:
From ca. 1960 to 2011
Ezzat-Malek Soudavar, Tehran, Iran and Geneva, Switzerland. [1]
From 2011 to 2014
Abolala Soudavar, Geneva, Switzerland, gift of his mother, Ezzat-Malek Soudavar. [2]
From 2014
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Abolala Soudavar in 2014. [3]
Notes:
[1] According to Abolala Soudavar, his mother amassed most of her collection during the 1960s and 1970s. Around 1980, Ezzat-Malek Soudavar moved her collection for safekeeping to Geneva, Switzerland, in a bank safe deposit that she had. On March 24, 2011, Ezzat-Malek Soudavar formally gave the collection to her son, Abolala Soudavar. This information was provided by Abolala Soudavar in 2013. See letter from Abolala Soudavar dated Nov. 30, 2013, copy in object file, Collections Management Office. The collection remained in Geneva until its arrival at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC
[2] See note 1.
[3] See Deed of Gift, original in object file, Collections Management Office.
Collection:
National Museum of Asian Art Collection
Exhibition History:
The Prince and the Shah: Royal Portraits from Qajar Iran (February 24 to August 5, 2018)
Previous custodian or owner:
Ezzat-Malek Soudavar (Iranian, 1913-2014)
Abolala Soudavar
Topic:
Shahnama  Search this
Safavid period (1501 - 1722)  Search this
Qajar period (1779 - 1925)  Search this
nasta'liq script  Search this
Iran  Search this
Arts of the Islamic World  Search this
Ezzat-Malek Soudavar collection  Search this
Credit Line:
Gift of A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar
Accession Number:
S2014.17.4
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
Related Online Resources:
Google Cultural Institute
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
Data Source:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye320aedf4b-5489-41bd-b286-6ceecb74fd0d
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:fsg_S2014.17.4