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Bahram Gur in the Green Pavillionfront

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Bahram Gur in the Green Pavillion

  • Details

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    Series
    Quintet
    Associated place
    Asia › Iran (place of creation)
    Asia › Iran › Fars › Shiraz (possible place of creation)
    Date
    1570 - 1580
    Artist/maker
    Nizami Ganjavi (1141 - 1209) (author)
    Associated people
    Bahram Gur (ruled AD 420 - 438) (subject)
    Material and technique
    ink, colour, and gold on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 40.6 x 27.9 cm (height x width)
    page 30 x 21.4 cm (height x width)
    painting 24.6 x 17.7 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper,
    processed material › metal › gold
    Technique index
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    decorated › painted
    Object type index
    communications equipment › manuscript,
    visual representation › painting
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Gift of Gerald Reitlinger, 1978.
    Accession no.
    EA1978.2565

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 18 July-13 September 1981, and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition, Deborah Willis, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum and London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981), no. 393 on p. 136, illus. p. 136

    Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 27 November 2012-28 April 2013, Les mille et une nuits, Elodie Bouffar and Anne-Alexandra Joyard, eds (Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 2012), cat. p. 381, illus. p. 288

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