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Kneeling Woman
16th century
Object Place: Iran
Medium/Technique
Color and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 32.9 × 21.4 cm (12 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number15.30
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
DescriptionWoman dressed in blue and gold coat with brown undergarment. Helmet-shaped cap decorated with gold and sprays of flowers. Background light blue. Calligraphy at back unsigned. Reportedly from a muraqqa of 14 leaves.
ProvenanceBy 1913, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1915, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: January 7, 1915)