Seal with impression

Object Details

• Previous custodian or owner

  Anonymous

• Provenance

  From 1943-45 to 1981

  Private collection, purchased from an antique dealer in Tehran, Iran between 1943 and 1945. [1]

  From 1981

  Freer Gallery of art, gift of an anonymous donor. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] According to donor, it was purchased in 1943-45 from an antique dealer in Tehran.

  [2] See object record.

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Anonymous gift

• Type

  Tool and Equipment

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  600s, 200s

• Name

  Upton, Joseph M.

• Topic

  Art, Sasanian period (ca. 224 - 651), Arts of the Islamic World

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Tools and equipment