Buckle
Exhibition of Persian Art, The Iranian Institute, New York, April 15-May 15, 1940, gallery case 56 no. B.
Persian Art, Asia Institute, New York, December 1949-March 1, 1950, no cat.
The Arts of Old Persia, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio, October 7-November 11, 1951; Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, November 18, 1951-January 1, 1952; John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, January 13-February 17, 1952, no. 169 as Iron Buckle.
Islam and the Medieval West, University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, April 6–May 4, 1975, no. 96 as Belt Buckle.
Genre, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 5–May 15, 1983, no. 50 as Court Scene with Shah Abbas and Two Attendants (buckle).
With Nejat Rabbi, Tehran, by 1934 [1];
With Arthur Upham Pope, London and New York, by 1934 [2];
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.
[2] According to Pope in a letter to the Director, dated August 4, 1936, in the NAMA curatorial files, this buckle was purchased from Mustapha ul Mamelek, a prominent family in Persia.
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), 1394, fig. A, (repro.).
Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present, vol. 3, The Art of the Book, Textiles, Carpets, Metalwork, Minor Arts. (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1939), 2525.
Phyllis Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, exh. cat. (New York: The Iranian Institute, 1940), 88–89, (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), 171, (repro.).
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, The Old Arts of Persia, exh. cat. (1951), unpaginated.
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), 247, (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), 165, (repro.).
Stanley Ferber, Islam and the Medieval West, exh. cat. (Binghamton, N.Y.: the University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1975), unpaginated, no. 96, (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), 400, (repro.).
