Harvard Art Museums > 2014.314: Pen Box with Dervish Seated in a Woodland Artists' Tools Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Pen Box with Dervish Seated in a Woodland , 2014.314,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 20, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/351861. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2014.314 Title Pen Box with Dervish Seated in a Woodland Classification Artists' Tools Work Type pen box Date c. 1800-1850 Places Creation Place: Middle East, Iran Period Qajar period Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/351861 Physical Descriptions Medium Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard Dimensions 3.8 × 4.1 × 23.4 cm (1 1/2 × 1 5/8 × 9 3/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History 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. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar Accession Year 2014 Object Number 2014.314 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in vertical format with a youthful dervish seated on the ground. He wears a roughly textured brown cloak and holds a staff in one hand; his begging bowl hangs from a nearby tree branch. A small deer and a broken tree trunk occupy the foreground, while large trees and small buildings fill the background. The sides are painted with a continuous wooded landscape with miscellaneous buildings and small figures engaged in hunting and agricultural activities. On the base, a flowering vine with grapes is painted in gold on a red background. Publication History Massumeh Farhad and Mary McWilliams, ed., A Collector’s Passion: Ezzat-Malek Soudavar and Persian Lacquer, Harvard Art Museums and Freer/Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution (Cambridge, MA/Washington, D.C., 2017), p. 124, cat. 74 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
