{"data": {"id": 124165, "accession_number": "1945.169", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940\u20131019 or 1025), 1444. Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501). Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper; overall: 32.5 x 22.1 cm (12 13/16 x 8 11/16 in.); recto image: 27.7 x 10.3 cm (10 7/8 x 4 1/16 in.); verso image: 26.3 x 20.7 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1945.169", "current_location": null, "title": "Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940\u20131019 or 1025)", "creation_date": "1444", "creation_date_earliest": 1444, "creation_date_latest": 1444, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501)"], "technique": "opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper", "support_materials": [], "department": "Islamic Art", "collection": "Islamic Art", "type": "Manuscript", "measurements": "Overall: 32.5 x 22.1 cm (12 13/16 x 8 11/16 in.); Recto Image: 27.7 x 10.3 cm (10 7/8 x 4 1/16 in.); Verso image: 26.3 x 20.7 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.325, "height_inch": 12, "height_inch_fraction": 0.8125, "width": 0.221, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.6875}, "recto image": {"height": 0.277, "height_inch": 10, "height_inch_fraction": 0.875, "width": 0.103, "width_inch": 4, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0625}, "verso image": {"height": 0.263, "height_inch": 10, "height_inch_fraction": 0.375, "width": 0.207, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.125}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "Y\u0101 kab\u012bkaj", "inscription_translation": "King of Cockroaches", "inscription_remark": "The inscription on the recto is a talismanic inscription against insects that might damage the book.", "sortorder": 2}, {"inscription": "Recto: Effaced seal", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": 3}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 355504, "title": "Exhibition of the Month: Texture in Art", "description": "<i>Exhibition of the Month: Texture in Art</i>. 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De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (February 24-March 22, 1937).", "opening_date": "1937-02-24T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Exhibition of Persian Art. </em>The Iranian Institute, New York, NY (1940).", "opening_date": "1940-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Exhibition of Islamic Art</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1944).", "opening_date": "1944-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Mostra d'Arte Iranica</em> [<em>Exhibition of Iranian art</em>]. Instituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente, Rome, Italy (June-August 1956).", "opening_date": "1956-06-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>The Twain Shall Meet</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).", "opening_date": "1985-10-30T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Order and Rhythm: Carpets from the Islamic World</em>. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 10-November 7, 1993<em>).</em>", "opening_date": "1993-09-10T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Philipp Walter Schulz [1864-1920], Leipzig, Germany", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "by 1914", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "(Mrs. Kirkor [Antoinette P. Clark] Minassian [1874-1961], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "before 1935-1945", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1945-", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [{"id": 133447, "description": "Royal Reception in a Landscape, left folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940\u20131019 or 1025), 1444. Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501). Opaque watercolor, ink, gold and silver on paper; recto image: 26.1 x 20.7 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.); overall: 32.7 x 22 cm (12 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1956.10", "relationship": "partner of"}], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Seemingly uninterested in the emissaries and gifts, a prince kneels with six royal women under an open tent and tries to coax one to have a drink.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The painting on the verso of this folio is the first half of a double-page frontispiece now detached from a <em>Shah-nama</em> manuscript (see <a href=\"http://cma.org/art/1956.10\"><u>CMA 1956.10</u></a> for the second half of the frontispiece). The scene does not illustrate a narrative from the <em>Shah-nama</em>, but is likely a representation of the courtly audience for whose entertainment the manuscript was created. 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Berlin-Neubabelsberg: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion M.BH., 1917.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 187, fig. 225", "url": null}, {"citation": "Aga-Oglu, Mehmet and Walter Heil. <em>Exhibition of Islamic art, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, February 24 to March 22, 1937</em>. San Fransisco: Carlisle, 1937.", "page_number": "p. 30, no. 52", "url": null}, {"citation": "Ackerman, Phyllis. <em>Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art</em>. New York: Iranian Institute of America, 1940.", "page_number": "p. 194", "url": null}, {"citation": "Milliken, William M. <em>Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11", "url": "https://archive.org/details/IslamicArtCMA"}, {"citation": "Robinson, B.W. \u201cOrigin and Date of Three Famous Shah-Nameh Illustrations,\u201d <em>Ars Orientalis </em>I (1954):105\u2013112.", "page_number": "p. 105", "url": null}, {"citation": "Stchoukine, Ivan. <em>Les Peintures des Manuscrits Timurids</em>. Paris: Institut Fran\u00e7ais d\u2019Arch\u00e9ologie de Beyrouth, Biblioth\u00e9que arch\u00e9ologique et historique, 1954.", "page_number": "pp. 44, 46, 60", "url": null}, {"citation": "Bussagli, Mario. <em>Mostra d'arte iranica. Exhibition of Iranian art</em>.<em> Roma, Palazzo Brancaccio, giugno-agosto, 1956</em>. Milan: Silvana editoriale d\u2019arte, 1956.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 506, p. 273, pl. 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Paris: Association francaise d\u2019action artistique, 1961.", "page_number": "no. 1079, p. 193", "url": null}, {"citation": "Grube, Ernst J. and Alberta Maria Fabris. <em>Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada</em>. Venice: N. Pozza, 1962.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: no.34, pp. 46\u201348", "url": null}, {"citation": "Reisner, Jacob. \u201c7000 Jahre Persische Kunst zur Austellung in \u2018Villa Hugel,\u2019\u201d <em>Die Kunst und das Schone Heim </em>60 (March 1962): 226\u2013233.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 96, 102\u2013103", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 222", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n246"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 222", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n246"}, {"citation": "Robinson, B.W. ed., <em>Islamic Painting and the Arts of the Book. </em>London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1976.", "page_number": "pp. 153, 154", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. 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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.", "page_number": "p. 318, n. 24", "url": null}, {"citation": "Grabar, Oleg. \u201cToward an Aesthetic of Persian Painting,\u201d in <em>The Art of Interpreting: Papers in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University vol. IX</em>, ed. Susan C. Scott, pp. 129\u2013162. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1995.", "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 6-3", "url": null}, {"citation": "Sims, Eleanor with Boris I. Marshak and Ernst J. Grube. <em>Peerless Images: Persian Painting and its Sources</em>. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 115\u2013116, fig. 32", "url": null}, {"citation": "de Selliers, Diane, ed. <em>Orient: Mille ans de poesi et de peinture. </em>Paris: Diane de Selliers, 2004.", "page_number": "pp. 106, 108", "url": null}, {"citation": "Curtil, Sophie and Milo\u0161 Cvach. <em>L\u2019Art par 1001 Mains</em>. Toulouse: \u00c9ditions MILAN, 2008.", "page_number": "p. 52", "url": null}, {"citation": "Gharipour, Mohammad. <em>Persian Gardens and Pavilions, Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts</em>. London: I.B. Tauris &amp; Co Ltd., 2013.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced:  fig. 85, p. 95", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 228\u2013229", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. 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