Pen Box with Flowers and Birds
1789-1790
Artists
Description
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. Top in horizontal format. The top and sides are decorated with a continuous frieze of flowering plants with birds and flying insects on a brown background. The base is painted with a gold arabesque on a red background.
Dimensions
3.8 × 3.7 × 22.3 cm (1 1/2 × 1 7/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Provenance
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.
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