id:			146194
accession number:	1971.84
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Black and White Bird Perched on a Shrub, 1651–52. Shafi' Abbasi (Iranian). Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper; sheet: 16.1 x 25 cm (6 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.); image: 7.7 x 13.4 cm (3 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1971.84

title:				Black and White Bird Perched on a Shrub
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creation date:			1651–52
creation date earliest:		1651
creation date latest:		1652
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Iran, Isfahan, Safavid period (1501-1722)
technique:	opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Manuscript
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CREATORS

* Shafi' Abbasi (Iranian)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 16.1 x 25 cm (6 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.); Image: 7.7 x 13.4 cm (3 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	"For the successful nawab, the most honorable, most holy, and most high, [who is] of exalted position, it was drawn by the qalam of the humble Shafi' 'Abbasi in the year 1062 (1651–52 AD)."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Arts of Isfahan
	opening date:   1973-10-10T04:00:00
	<i>The Arts of Isfahan</i>. Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (organizer) (October 10-December 2, 1973); Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (January 19-February 22, 1974).

	title:		Islamic art rotation
	opening date:   2014-12-18T05:00:00
	<i>Islamic art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 18, 2014-December 14, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>The Heritage of Islam</em>. Houston, TX; San Francisco, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Washington, DC (March 10, 1982-September 5, 1983).', 'opening_date': '1982-03-10T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	John D. MacDonald, Cambridge, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1971
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1971–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	“Annual Report for 1971.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 59, no. 6 (June 1972): 147–179.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 152; Reproduced: p. 151
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152434

	Welch, Anthony. <em>Shah ʹAbbas &amp; the Arts of Isfahan</em>. New York: The Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society [Greenwich, CT], 1973.
	page number: 	p. 99, cat. no. 58
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	Welch,  Anthony. "The Arts of Isfahan." <em>Orientations</em>, Vol. 4, no. 12 (December 1973).
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 33
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	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. 281
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n301

	Lippman, Thomas W. "Thirteen Centuries of Islamic Art and Science." <em>Smithsonian</em>, Vol. 14, no. 3, June 1983, pp. 66–69.
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	Turner, Howard R. <em>Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction</em>. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 168, fig. 10.2
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	Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 376, fig. 9.35
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