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A Garden Reception (majlis)
In this scene from Walters manuscript W.631, figures are seated in a garden landscape dressed in the early Safavid style drinking wine. The verses before and after the illustration are in white Nasta"liq script on a gold ground. The borders are decorated in an illuminated floral pattern, perhaps stenciled.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Iran (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 8 11/16 x W: 5 1/8 in. (22 x 13 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
W.631.150B
