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Materials:

ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, mounted with borders of gold-decorated pink and cream paper

Size Notes:

miniature; Page: 23.4 by 15cm.

Description:

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Exhibited:

Wonders of the Age, The British Library, London; The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Fogg Art Museum. Harvard University, 1979-80

Literature:

Welch 1979, no.72, pp.188-9 Dickson and Welch 1981, vol.I, p.227.

Provenance:

Formerly in the Aga-Oglu Collection. Mehment Aga-Oglu (1896-1949) was a major figure in the field of Islamic Art History in the first half of the 20th century. Educated in Moscow, Istanbul, Berlin, Jena and Vienna, he held a variety of teaching and curatorial posts in Istanbul before moving to the United States, where he was Curator of Near Eastern Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, Consultant at the Textile Museum, Washington D.C., and founder and first editor of the journal Ars Islamica from 1934.