id: 124167 accession number: 1945.169.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1945.169.b updated: 2023-12-07 16:33:37.705000 Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 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 title: Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025) (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1444 creation date earliest: 1444 creation date latest: 1444 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501) technique: opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Persian Miniature Manuscripts opening date: 1977-08-13T04:00:00 Persian Miniature Manuscripts. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (August 13-September 11, 1977). title: Islamic art rotation opening date: 2013-12-16T05:00:00 Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014). title: Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation) opening date: 2018-10-30T04:00:00 Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 2018-October 28, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exhibition of Muhammedan Art [Die Ausstellung Von Meisterwerken der Muhammadanischen Kunst in Munchen]. Munich, Germany (1910). * Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (1935). [lent by Minassian] (both folios?) * Exhibition of Islamic Art. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (February 24-March 22, 1937). * Exhibition of Persian Art. The Iranian Institute, New York, NY (1940). * Exhibition of Islamic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1944). * Mostra d'Arte Iranica [Exhibition of Iranian art]. Instituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente, Rome (June-August 1956). * 7000 Ans d'art en Iran. Petit Palais, Paris (October-November 1961). * Muslim Miniature Paintings from American Collections. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy; Asia House, New York, NY (September 1962-February 1963). * Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). * Imperial Images in Persian Painting. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 13-September 11, 1977). * The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). * Order and Rhythm: Carpets from the Islamic World. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 10-November 7, 1993). --- PROVENANCE Philipp Walter Schulz [1864-1920], Leipzig, Germany date: by 1914 footnotes: citations: (Mrs. Kirkor [Antoinette P. Clark] Minassian [1874-1961], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: before 1935-1945 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1945- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: Shepherd, Dorothy G. “A Shāhnāmah Frontispiece.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (December 1956) vol. 43, no. 10, 1956, pp. 213–217. page number: Mentioned: pp. 213-217; Reproduced: p. 217 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142170 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 722 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n132 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 222 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n246 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 222 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n246 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 279 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n299 Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 45, p. 350 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 Gharipour, Mohammad. Persian Gardens and Pavilions, Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts. London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 2013. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 85, p. 95 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 228-229 url: Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland, OH; New Haven, CT: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p.132; Mentioned: p 133 url: Soucek, Priscilla. " Looking East, Looking West: The Artistic Connections of Ming China and Timurid Iran." In Ming China: Courts and Contacts, 1400-1450. Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Yu Ping Luk., eds., p. 233. London: The British Museum, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 233, pl. 26.8a-b url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.169.b/1945.169.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.169.b/1945.169.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1945.169.b/1945.169.b_full.tif