Pen Box with Flowers and Birds in Grisaille Technique

Artists

Description

Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format. The top and sides are similarly decorated with birds perching in flowering branches, painted in black on an off-white background. On the base a vine is painted in gold on an off-white background.

Dimensions

3 × 2.9 × 18.5 cm (1 3/16 × 1 1/8 × 7 5/16 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.