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Collection Online as of May 30, 2023

Text Page, Persian Verses (recto); Bahram Gur meets Arzu, the Daughter of Mahiyar (verso)

c. 1350

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Iran, Shiraz, Inju Period, 14th Century

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Overall: 29 x 20.7 cm (11 7/16 x 8 1/8 in.); Text area: 22.5 x 15.3 cm (8 7/8 x 6 in.)

Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1945.387

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

script: Naskh

Provenance
?-1945
(H. Kevorkian [1872–1962], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1945-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history

Islamic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1945.387