About the Artwork
Figure of a Courtier from a Palace Frieze
between 1150 and 1250
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Iranian
Islamic
Painted stucco
Overall: 40 inches (101.6 cm)
Sculpture
Islamic Art
City of Detroit Purchase
25.64
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on upper arm bands, in Kufic: [translated: the faithful]
Provenance
H. Kevorkian
1925-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 11, no. 3 (1929): pp. 41-42, (ill. p. 41).
Masterpieces of Art in Memory of W.R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, April 6-May 17, 1951, suppl. 13.
Riefstahl, Rudolf M. "Persian Islamic Stucco Sculptures," The Art Bulletin, vol. 13, no. 5 (1931): p. 462, (ill.).
Henshaw, Julia P., ed. A Visitors Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 121 (ill.).
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Islamic, Iranian, Figure of a Courtier from a Palace Frieze, between 1150 and 1250, painted stucco. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 25.64.
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