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Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)

1444

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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.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.169

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Seemingly uninterested in the emissaries and gifts, a prince kneels with six royal women under an open tent and tries to coax one to have a drink.

Description

The painting on the verso of this folio is the first half of a double-page frontispiece now detached from a Shah-nama manuscript (see CMA 1956.10 for the second half of the frontispiece). The scene does not illustrate a narrative from the Shah-nama, 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.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Yā kabīkaj

Inscription Translation

King of Cockroaches

Inscription Remark

The inscription on the recto is a talismanic inscription against insects that might damage the book.

Inscription

Recto: Effaced seal

Provenance

by 1914

Philipp Walter Schulz [1864-1920], Leipzig, Germany

before 1935-1945

(Mrs. Kirkor [Antoinette P. Clark] Minassian [1874-1961], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1945-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Sarre, Friedrich Paul Theodor, F. R. Martin, Max van Berchem, Moriz Dreger, Ernst Kühnel, Camillo List, and Severin Schröder. Die Ausstellung von Meisterwerken muhammedanischer Kunst in München, 1910. München: F. Bruckmann, 1912. vol. I, pl. 22, no. 653

Schulz, Ph.W. Die persisch-islamische Miniaturmalerei. Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte Irans. Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1914. Mentioned and Reproduced: vol. 1, p. 87; vol II, pls. 37, 110

Diez, Ernst. Die Kunst der Islamischen Volker. Berlin-Neubabelsberg: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion M.BH., 1917. Reproduced: p. 187, fig. 225

Aga-Oglu, Mehmet and Walter Heil. Exhibition of Islamic art, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, February 24 to March 22, 1937. San Fransisco: Carlisle, 1937. p. 30, no. 52

Ackerman, Phyllis. Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art. New York: Iranian Institute of America, 1940. p. 194

Milliken, William M. Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11 archive.org

Robinson, B.W. “Origin and Date of Three Famous Shah-Nameh Illustrations,” Ars Orientalis I (1954):105–112. p. 105

Stchoukine, Ivan. Les Peintures des Manuscrits Timurids. Paris: Institut Français d’Archéologie de Beyrouth, Bibliothéque archéologique et historique, 1954. pp. 44, 46, 60

Bussagli, Mario. Mostra d'arte iranica. Exhibition of Iranian art. Roma, Palazzo Brancaccio, giugno-agosto, 1956. Milan: Silvana editoriale d’arte, 1956. Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 506, p. 273, pl. LXXXVI

Shepherd, Dorothy G. “A Shāhnāmah Frontispiece.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (December 1956) vol. 43, no. 10, 1956, pp. 213–217. Mentioned: pp. 213–217; Reproduced: p. 217 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 722 archive.org

Gray, Basil. Persian Painting. Cleveland: Editions d’Art Albert Sikra and The World Publishing Company, 1961. pp. 96, 102–103

Ghirshman, Roman. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961-Janvier 1962. Paris: Association francaise d’action artistique, 1961. no. 1079, p. 193

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. Mentioned and Reproduced: no.34, pp. 46–48

Reisner, Jacob. “7000 Jahre Persische Kunst zur Austellung in ‘Villa Hugel,’” Die Kunst und das Schone Heim 60 (March 1962): 226–233. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 96, 102–103

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 222 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 222 archive.org

Robinson, B.W. ed., Islamic Painting and the Arts of the Book. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1976. pp. 153, 154

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 279 archive.org

Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 45, p. 350 www.jstor.org

Williams, Marjorie. “Dragons, Porcelains and Demons, Cultural Exchange between China and Persia,” Orientations 17 no. 8 (August 1986). Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 26, fig. 5

Grabar, Oleg. The Meditation of Ornament. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 215, fig, 187

Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan S. Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250 – 1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. p. 318, n. 24

Grabar, Oleg. “Toward an Aesthetic of Persian Painting,” in The Art of Interpreting: Papers in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University vol. IX, ed. Susan C. Scott, pp. 129–162. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1995. Reproduced: fig. 6-3

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. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 115–116, fig. 32

de Selliers, Diane, ed. Orient: Mille ans de poesi et de peinture. Paris: Diane de Selliers, 2004. pp. 106, 108

Curtil, Sophie and Miloš Cvach. L’Art par 1001 Mains. Toulouse: Éditions MILAN, 2008. p. 52

Gharipour, Mohammad. Persian Gardens and Pavilions, Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts. London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 2013. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 85, p. 95

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 228–229

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. Reproduced: p.132, fig. 4.3; Mentioned: p. 133

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. Reproduced: p. 233, pl. 26.8a-b

Exhibition history

Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014). (1945.169.b only)

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).

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).

Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014). (1945.169.b only)

Exhibition of the Month: Texture in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 6-December 8, 1947).

The Exhibition of Persian Art: 7000 Years of Art in Iran. Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (organizer) (October 19, 1961-January 31, 1962).

Muslim Miniature Paintings. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy, Venezia, Italy (organizer) (September 1-October 31, 1962); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 4, 1962-February 3, 1963).

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).

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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