Bowl with Double-Headed Bird
Exhibition of Islamic Art, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, February 24-March 22, 1937, no. 123 as Plate.
Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, April 15-May 15, 1940, gallery 7, case 20, no. A as Plate.
With Ayoub Rabenou (1902-1984), Paris, by 1931[1];
Purchased at Catalogue of Important and Valuable Persian Works of Art, Sotheby and Company, London, June 16-17, 1931, no. 127 by Bessie Bennett [2];
Bessie Bennett (1872-1939), Chicago, 1931;
With Arthur Upham Pope (1881-1969), New York and Itran, Iran, by 1932 [3];
Purchased from Arthur Upham Pope by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
[1] Bowl listed as “The Property of Mons. A. Rabenou” in Catalogue of Important and Valuable Persian Works of Art, Sotheby and Company, London, June 16-17, 1931, no. 127. It is very likely that Pope was familiar with the collection of Rabenou, a dealer and close associate of Pope. See Yuka Kadoi, ed., Arthur Upham Pope and a New Survey of Persian Art, vol. 10, Studies in Persian Cultural History (Leiden: Brill, 2016).
[2] In the auction results, Bessie Bennett is listed as the purchaser of lot . Ms. Bennett was a curator of Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago and a colleague of Arthur Upham Pope. It is not clear if Ms. Bennett was collecting for herself, for the Art Institute of Chicago, or Pope himself. The bowl was in Pope’s possession by 1932. Note: Ms. Bennett traveled to England during the summer of 1931. She is listed on the “Ile de France” manifest record, which departed August 19th, 1931 from Plymouth bound for New York. Records may be found on ancestry.com.
[3] Registration record recorded Arthur Upham Pope as the vendor.
Catalogue of Important and Valuable Persian Works of Art (London: Sotheby and Company, 1931), 18, fig. 127, (repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 86, (repro.)
Walter Heil and Aga-Oglu Mehmet, Exhibition of Islamic Art, exh. cat. (San Francisco: M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, 1937), 42, fig. 123, (repro.).
Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art vol. 2, Volume 2 Text, Architecture, The Ceramic Arts, Calligraphy and Epigraphy (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1939), 1521-21.
Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institute, 1940), 163
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 134, (repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 172, (repro.).
S. Camman, “Ancient Symbols in Modern Afghanistan,” in Ars Orientalis 2 (1957): 30, plate 5, fig. 14, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 245, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 157, (repro.).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 398, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 25, fig. 7, (repro.).
