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Hand Mirror

CulturePersian
Datelate 16th-early 17th century
MediumSteel with gold inlay
DimensionsOverall: 10 3/4 × 5 3/8 inches (27.31 × 13.65 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-224
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

Iranian Art through the Four Millennia, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, January 12–February 10, 1940, no cat.

Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, April 15-May 15, 1940, gallery 4, case 56, no. D as Mirror.

Shah ‘Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, Asia House Gallery, New York, October 11-December 2, 1973; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,  January 19-February 24, 1974, no. 44 as Steel Mirror Inlaid with Gold.

Provenance

With Nejat Rabbi, Tehran, by 1934 [1];

With Arthur Upham Pope, London and New York, by 1934;

Purchased from Pope by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

[1] According to Arthur Upham Pope, invoice to NAMA, July 17, 1934, NAMA registration files.

Published References

Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institute, 1940), 88.

Anthony Welch, Shah ‘Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, exh. cat. (New York: The Asia Society, 1973), 56-57, fig. 44, 71, (repro.).

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