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accession number: 1945.169.b
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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)
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creation date: 1444
creation date earliest: 1444
creation date latest: 1444
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501)
technique: opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
department: Islamic Art
collection: Islamic Art
type: Manuscript
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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.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Muhammedan Art [Die Ausstellung Von Meisterwerken der Muhammadanischen Kunst in Munchen]. 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': 'Exhibition of Islamic Art. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (February 24-March 22, 1937).', 'opening_date': '1937-02-24T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Persian Art. The Iranian Institute, New York, NY (1940).', 'opening_date': '1940-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Islamic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1944).', 'opening_date': '1944-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Mostra d'Arte Iranica [Exhibition of Iranian art]. Instituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente, Rome (June-August 1956).", 'opening_date': '1956-06-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "7000 Ans d'art en Iran. Petit Palais, Paris (October-November 1961).", 'opening_date': '1961-10-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Muslim Miniature Paintings from American Collections. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy; Asia House, New York, NY (September 1962-February 1963).', 'opening_date': '1962-09-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).', 'opening_date': '1965-09-11T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Imperial Images in Persian Painting. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 13-September 11, 1977).', 'opening_date': '1977-08-13T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).', 'opening_date': '1985-10-30T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Order and Rhythm: Carpets from the Islamic World. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 10-November 7, 1993).', 'opening_date': '1993-09-10T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Philipp Walter Schulz [1864-1920], Leipzig, Germany
date: by 1914
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(Mrs. Kirkor [Antoinette P. Clark] Minassian [1874-1961], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: before 1935-1945
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1945-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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