Pen Box with Flowers and Birds
1780-1781
Artists
Description
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format. The top and sides are decorated with a continuous frieze of flowering plants with birds and flying insects. On the base and compartment, a gold arabesque is painted on a black background.
Dimensions
3.7 × 3.6 × 22.3 cm (1 7/16 × 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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