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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2014.381
People
Fathallah Shirazi
Title
Wafer Seal Case with Tiger Hunt
Classification
Boxes
Work Type
box
Date
1876-1877
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
Period
Qajar period
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/352138

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer over tin layer on pasteboard
Dimensions
1.9 × 3.1 × 15.7 cm (3/4 × 1 1/4 × 6 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription:
    بر حسب فرمایش نواب اشرف امجد ارفع والا حشمت الدوله وزیر جنگ دام مجده العالی اتمام یافت

    کمترین بنده درگاه فتح الله شيرازي

    Finished by the order of his highness the noble, glorious, highest exalted Hishmat al-Dawlah, the Minister of War. May his glory be perpetuated.

    Lowliest servant of the court, Fathallah Shirazi

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
2014.381
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Lidded box with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format with bouquets flanking a central panel, in which a tiger attacks men riding on elephants.

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. 148, cat. 147

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