Object Details
- Provenance
- From ca. 1960 to 2011
- Ezzat-Malek Soudavar, Tehran, Iran and Geneva, Switzerland. [1]
- From 2011 to 2014
- Abolala Soudavar, Geneva, Switzerland, gift of his mother, Ezzat-Malek Soudavar. [2]
- From 2014
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Abolala Soudavar in 2014. [3]
- Notes:
- [1] According to Abolala Soudavar, his mother amassed most of her collection during the 1960s and 1970s. Around 1980, Ezzat-Malek Soudavar moved her collection for safekeeping to Geneva, Switzerland, in a bank safe deposit that she had. On March 24, 2011, Ezzat-Malek Soudavar formally gave the collection to her son, Abolala Soudavar. This information was provided by Abolala Soudavar in 2013. See letter from Abolala Soudavar dated Nov. 30, 2013, copy in object file, Collections Management Office. The collection remained in Geneva until its arrival at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] See Deed of Gift, original in object file, Collections Management Office.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- The Prince and the Shah: Royal Portraits from Qajar Iran (February 24 to August 5, 2018)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Ezzat-Malek Soudavar (Iranian, 1913-2014)
- Abolala Soudavar
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Calligrapher
- Vali ibn Ali Takulu
- Date
- 1612 (1021 A.H.) (text); ca. 1800-1850 (illustrations and cover)
- Period
- Safavid period (text) and Qajar period (illustrations and cover)
- Credit Line
- Gift of A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper (text and illustrations); brown leather tooled binding with lacquered cartouches (cover)
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (Closed): 35.5 × 24.5 × 8.5 cm (14 × 9 5/8 × 3 3/8 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
