Dagger
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. 67 as Steel Dagger with Bone Handle and Gold Inlay.
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 curatorial files.
Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, vol. 6, Plates 981–1482 Textiles, Carpets, Metalwork, Minor Arts. (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1939), 1425, fig. B, (repro.).
Anthony Welch, Shah ‘Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, exh. cat.(New York: The Asia Society, 1973), 96, 101, (repro.).
