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"tombstone": "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",
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"title": "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)",
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"id": 518751,
"title": "The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran",
"description": "The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran. Petit Palais, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (organizer) (October 19, 1961-January 31, 1962).",
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"title": "Juxtapositions",
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"title": "Persian Miniature Manuscripts",
"description": "Persian Miniature Manuscripts. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (August 13-September 11, 1977).",
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"id": 309887,
"title": "The Twain Shall Meet",
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"description": "Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (1935). [lent by Minassian] (both folios?)",
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"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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"description": "Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014). (1956.10.a only)",
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"description": "Philipp Walter Schulz [1864-1920], Leipzig, Germany",
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"id": 124165,
"description": "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",
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"did_you_know": "From the upper left two trained cheetahs, a falcon, and horses are led into the scene.",
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"citation": "Allsen, Thomas T. The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.",
"page_number": "80",
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"citation": "Schulz, Philipp Walter. Die persisch-islamische Miniaturmalerei. Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte Irans. Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1914.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: vol.1, p. 87; vol II, pl. 36",
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"citation": "Ackerman, Phyllis. Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art. New York: Iranian Institute of America, 1940.",
"page_number": "p. 194",
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"citation": "Robinson, B.W. \u201cThe Illustrated Persian Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library,\u201d Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 34 (September 1952): 69\u201380.",
"page_number": "p.72n3",
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"citation": "Robinson, B.W. \u201cOrigin and Date of Three Famous Shah-Nameh Illustrations,\u201d Ars Orientalis I (1954): 105\u2013112.",
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"citation": "Stchoukine, Ivan. Les Peintures des Manuscrits Timurids. Paris: Institut Fran\u00e7ais d\u2019Arch\u00e9ologie de Beyrouth, Biblioth\u00e9que arch\u00e9ologique et historique, 1954.",
"page_number": "pp. 44, 46, 60",
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"citation": "Shepherd, D.G. \u201cA Shahnamah Frontispiece,\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 43 (December 1956): pp. 213\u2013215.",
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"citation": "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"
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"citation": "Gray, Basil. Persian Painting. Cleveland: Editions d\u2019Art Albert Sikra and The World Publishing Company, 1961.",
"page_number": "pp. 96, 102\u2013103",
"url": null
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"citation": "Ghirshman, Roman. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962. Paris: Association francaise d\u2019action artistique, 1961.",
"page_number": "no.1079, p. 193",
"url": null
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"citation": "Grube, Ernst J. and Alberta Maria Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada. Venice: N. Pozza, 1962.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 34, pp. 46\u201348",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n246"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n246"
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"citation": "Robinson, B.W. ed., Islamic Painting and the Arts of the Book. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1976.",
"page_number": "pp. 153, 154",
"url": null
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"citation": "Hillenbrand, Robert. Imperial Images in Persian Painting. Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council Gallery, 1977.",
"page_number": "p. 25, no. 107",
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"citation": "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"
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"citation": "Neils, Jenifer. \u201cThe Twain Shall Meet.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326\u2013359.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 45, p. 350",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914"
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"citation": "Williams, Marjorie. \u201cDragons, Porcelains and Demons, Cultural Exchange between China and Persia,\u201d Orientations 17 no. 8 (August 1986).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 26, fig. 5",
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"citation": "Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan S. Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250 \u2013 1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.",
"page_number": "p. 318, no. 24",
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"citation": "Grabar, Oleg. \u201cToward an Aesthetic of Persian Painting,\u201d in The Art of Interpreting: Papers in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University vol. IX, ed. Susan C. Scott, pp. 129\u2013162. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1995.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 6-2",
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"citation": "Sims, Eleanor, with Boris I. Marshak and Ernst J. Grube. Peerless Images: Persian Painting and its Sources. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002.",
"page_number": "p. 115, fig. 32",
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"citation": "de Selliers, Diane, editor. Orient: Mille ans de poesi et de peinture. Paris: Diane de Selliers, 2004.",
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"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 132, fig. 4.3; Mentioned: P. 133",
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"citation": "Harrison-Hall, Jessica. \" Early Ming Ceramics: Rethinking the Status of Blue-and-White.\" In Ming China: Courts and Contacts, 1400-1450. Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Yu Ping Luk., eds., p. 80. London: The British Museum, 2016.",
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