Door
Place made:Iran
Culture: Iranian
Dynasty: Qajar
Date: 19th century
Medium: Painted wood
Dimensions:
h. 72 1/8 in. (183.2 cm); w. 36 in. (91.4 cm); d. 2 in. (5.1 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins
Object number: 96.1.205
Provenance: Frances Semaan Wilkins (1916-1999) and Frederick Wilkins (1916-2004), San Antonio, by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1996
Published References
J. Powers and J. Johnston, eds., San Antonio Museum of Art: Guide to the Collection (San Antonio: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2012), 63.
Label Text
This interior door from Iran was painted in the early 1800s is an excellent example of surface decoration using a variety of floral panels in various colors. The most interesting feature of the door is the painting depicting a dancer and musicians. Done in the Qajar style, this was the last development in the long history of Islamic painting. The Qajars were the ruling dynasty in Iran from 1779 - 1924 and gave their name to a school noted for stiff portraiture and court scenes. This drawing is a more lively, almost provincial, example of the genre.
(G. D. Scott, III, 1999)
(G. D. Scott, III, 1999)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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