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Relief with Tribute Bearers
Relief with Tribute Bearers

Relief with Tribute Bearers

CulturePersian
Date5th-4th century B.C.E.
MediumLimestone
DimensionsOverall: 32 1/2 × 19 1/2 × 5 inches (82.55 × 49.53 × 12.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-101
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 103
Collections
Exhibition History
Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, CA, April 6-August 8, 2022.
Gallery Label
A Persian servant bears a covered bowl; the partially preserved figure behind him grasps a young goat. This fragment belonged to a long relief of servants carrying food and wine to their king, a scene inspired by actual processions at royal banquets.

The broad, even, sweeping folds of the servant's garment have an abstract and harmonious character; the richly patterned-and equally abstract-beard and forelocks draw attention to the face. The relief was probably brightly painted and contrasted with the dull hues of the nearby landscape.
Provenance

Persepolis, Iran;

 

With Sassoon, Paris, by June 17, 1931;

 

Purchased from Sassoon by Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York, stock no. P8001, June 17, 1931-April 4, 1933 [1];

 

Purchased from Brummer Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archives, Brummer Gallery Records, Sassanian, Object inventory card number P8001.

Published References

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), 84.

 

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), 133, fig. 3.

 

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), 169.

 

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), 12.

 

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. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 16.

 

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), 109.

 

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), 5, fig. 5.
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