Detached album folio; verso: Girl with a jar on her shoulder; recto: text

Object Details

• Description

  Detached album folio; recto: text in Persian black and gold nasta'liq script, four columns, twenty lines; verso: Girl with a jar on her shoulder.

  Border: The text and the painting are set in red, gold and black rulings and a gold border with landscape and animal motifs on cream-colored paper.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Origin

  Isfahan, Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Date

  1700s, 1710s, 1720s, 1500s, 1610s, 1600s, 1590s, 1650s, 1540s, 1530s, 1640s, 1520s, 1630s, 1510s, 1620s, 1580s, 1730s, 1690s, 1570s, 1680s, 1560s, 1670s, 1550s, 1660s

• Place

  Isfahan

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Henri Vever collection, Arts of the Islamic World, Woman

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Language

  Nasta?li-q script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts