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Bahram Gur Wins the Crown, a folio from a Small Mongol Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Bahram Gur Wins the Crown, a folio from a Small Mongol Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Bahram Gur Wins the Crown, a folio from a Small Mongol Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Series TitleShahnama (Book of Kings)
CulturePersian
Dateca. 1340
MediumWatercolor and ink with gold and silver leaf on paper
DimensionsImage: 4 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches (12.07 x 5.72 cm)
Sheet: 6 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches (16.21 x 12.37 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number46-41
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Islamic Painting from American Collections, The School of Art and The Department of Religion, Syracuse University, April 6-26, 1967, no. 10 as Page from the First Small Shah-Nameh.

Imperial Images in Persian Painting, Edinburgh, Scottish Arts Council, August 13-September 11, 1977, no. 208 as Bahram Gur Wins the Crown.

Provenance

With Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York, by 1946;

Purchased from Hagop Kevorkian by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.

Published References

Ernst J. Grube, Islamic Painting from American Collections, exh. cat. (Syracuse, The School of Art, Syracuse University, 1967), 6.

Robert Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting, exh. cat. (Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council Gallery, 1977), 94.

The Divine Campaigns: AD 1100-1200 (Alexandria,VA: Time-Life Books, 1988), 114-15, (repro.).

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