Woman with a spray of flowers

Object Details

• Description

  Detached album folio: Woman with a spray of flowers.

  Border: The painting is set in gold, green and blue rulings on a paper with floral motifs, marginal cartouches with two couplets in white nasta'liq script and two marginal medallions with kneeling youths.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  Visual Poetry: Paintings and Drawings from Iran (December 16, 2001 to May 5, 2004)

  A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

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

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Topic

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

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Paintings