Pair of Doors

1850-1910 (Qajar)

91.5 cm 189.9 cm 9 cm

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These doors are decorated with floral, and figural motifs recalling 17th-century designs of the Safavid period (1501–1736); however, they were painted by Iranian artists more than 200 years later. Reviving or imitating historical styles in art is a common practice in many cult...

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36351
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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