Pen-Box with Hunters and Portraits

Description This pen-box is a hollowed-out walrus tusk, into which a sliding drawer has been fitted. The surface is carved with hunting horsemen and busts of three men and a woman within floral frames. The underside of the box is signed in a cartouche: "Work of Kazim al-Hasani, 1231" (AD 1815-1816). There is a chip and a repair where the side touches the cover.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
10/06/1983	Treatment	cleaned; examined for technical study

Exhibitions

• The Art of Writing Instruments from Paris to Persia. 2011.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] work of Kazim al-Hasani, 1231

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters