Folio from the Tarikh-i alam-aray-i Shah Ismail (The world adorning history of Shah Ismail); The Battle between Shah Ismail and Abul-khayr Khan

Object Details

• Author

  Bijan

• Artist

  Mu'in Musavvir (active ca. 1635-1690) (or a follower)

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Tarikh-i alam aray-i Shah Ismail (The world adorning history of Shah Ismail) by Bijan; The battle between Shah Ismail and Abul-Khayr Khan with two lines of calligraphy in Persian black nasta'liq script above and below the painting; reverse: blank

  Border: The painting is set in gold, blue, and purple rulings with a narrow, pink inner frame of gold floral scroll and a black outer frame with gold floral motifs.

• Provenance

  From 1950s

  Hyatt-Mayor Collection, from the 1950s [1]

  To 2000

  Martha Mayor Smith, Washington, DC, and Alfred Mayor, New York City, by descent, to 2000

  From 2000

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Martha Mayor Smith and Alfred Mayor in 2000

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note 2, Massumeh Farhad, February 29, 2000, in the object record.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of the Islamic World (May 3, 1998 to January 3, 2016)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Alfred Mayor

  Martha Mayor Smith

• Origin

  Isfahan, Iran

• Credit Line

  Gift of Martha Mayor Smith and Alfred Mayor in memory of A. Hyatt Mayor

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Smith, Martha Mayor, Mayor, Alfred

• Place

  Isfahan

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Wars, Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Flowers

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts