{"data": {"id": 124167, "accession_number": "1945.169.b", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940\u20131019 or 1025) (verso), 1444. Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501). Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper; image: 26.3 x 20.7 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.); overall: 32.5 x 22.1 cm (12 13/16 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1945.169.b", "current_location": null, "title": "Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940\u20131019 or 1025) (verso)", "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": "Image: 26.3 x 20.7 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/8 in.); Overall: 32.5 x 22.1 cm (12 13/16 x 8 11/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"image": {"height": 0.263, "height_inch": 10, "height_inch_fraction": 0.375, "width": 0.207, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.125}, "overall": {"height": 0.325, "height_inch": 12, "height_inch_fraction": 0.8125, "width": 0.221, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.6875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 443710, "title": "Persian Miniature Manuscripts", "description": "<i>Persian Miniature Manuscripts</i>. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (August 13-September 11, 1977).", "opening_date": "1977-08-13T04:00:00"}, {"id": 380961, "title": "Islamic art rotation", "description": "<i>Islamic art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014).", "opening_date": "2013-12-16T05:00:00"}, {"id": 294015, "title": "Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation)", "description": "<i>Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 2018-October 28, 2019).", "opening_date": "2018-10-30T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Exhibition of Muhammedan Art [Die Ausstellung Von Meisterwerken der Muhammadanischen Kunst in Munchen]</em>. Munich, Germany (1910).", "opening_date": "1910-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (1935). [lent by Minassian] (both folios?)", "opening_date": "1935-01-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Exhibition of Islamic Art</em>. 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 (June-August 1956).", "opening_date": "1956-06-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>7000 Ans d'art en Iran</em>. Petit Palais, Paris (October-November 1961).", "opening_date": "1961-10-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Muslim Miniature Paintings from American Collections</em>. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy; Asia House, New York, NY (September 1962-February 1963).", "opening_date": "1962-09-01T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Juxtapositions</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).", "opening_date": "1965-09-11T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Imperial Images in Persian Painting</em>. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 13-September 11, 1977).", "opening_date": "1977-08-13T00:00:00"}, {"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": [], "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": [], "date": "before 1935-1945", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1945-", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "A musician plays a harp that has been mounted over a stream, painted with now tarnished silver paint.", "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><u> </u>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. The date and style of the painting indicate that it was made during the reign of the Timurid dynasty in Shiraz, Iran.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60760095"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1945.169.b-royal-reception-in-a"]}, "citations": [{"citation": null, "page_number": null, "url": null}, {"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy G. \u201cA Sh\u0101hn\u0101mah Frontispiece.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>(December 1956) vol. 43, no. 10, 1956, pp. 213\u2013217.", "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 213-217; Reproduced: p. 217", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142170"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 722", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n132"}, {"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": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 279", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n299"}, {"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \u201cThe Twain Shall Meet.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326\u2013359.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 45, p. 350", "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25159914"}, {"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: P. 228-229", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland, OH; New Haven, CT: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p.132; Mentioned: p 133", "url": null}, {"citation": "Soucek, Priscilla. \" Looking East, Looking West: The Artistic Connections of Ming China and Timurid Iran.\" In <em>Ming China: Courts and Contacts, 1400-1450. </em>Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Yu Ping Luk., eds., p. 233. 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