Pen Box with Indian Woman in a Landscape
1847-1848
Artists
Description
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in vertical format with a full-length figure of a woman in Indian dress standing in a landscape. She holds a circular fan behind her head. A duck and a tiny deer occupy the foreground, while trees, mountains, and a building occupy the background. The sides are divided into three vignettes of figures in landscape, separated by oval medallions containing portrait busts of young men and women in European, Indian, and Persian dress. The central vignettes feature hunters on horseback. The base and sliding compartment are decorated with gold arabesque on a black background.
Dimensions
3.7 × 3.7 × 22.8 cm (1 7/16 × 1 7/16 × 9 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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