Bowl with Scene of Courtier and Attendants
Exhibition of Islamic Art, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, February 24-March 22, 1397, no. 128 as Bowl.
Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 31, 2013-April 27, 2014, no cat.
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. 121 by M. Cohen, Paris, 1931 [2];
With M. Cohen, Paris, 1931;
With Arthur Upham Pope (1881-1969), New York and Itran, Iran, by 1932;
Purchased from Arthur Upham Pope by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932 [3].
[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. 121. 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, M. Cohen is listed as the purchaser of lot 121. M. Cohen may be the Jewish dealer Monsieur Mozaffar-Cohen who lent a number of objects to the 1931 Persian Art exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.
[3] Registration record recorded Arthur Upham Pope as vendor.
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), 43.
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.).
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), 158, (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), 399, (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), 26, fig. 10, (repro.).
Robert Cohon et al. Ceramics: Highlights from the Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2016), 36-37, (repro.).
Kimberly Masteller, “Arthur Upham Pope and Collecting Persian Art for Kansas City,” in Arthur Upham Pope and a New Survey of Asian Art, edited by Yuka Kadoi. (Leidon: Brill, 2016), 276–279, fig. 10.4, fig. 10.5, 276-77, 279-81, (repro.).
