Marcel Lheureux, Paris, acquired 1920s]; P. Alsace; [John J.
20/2011–1/29/2012; Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 2/26–6/3/2012; catalogue no. 99, p.
Freeman, Margaret B. "The Unicorn Tapestries."
.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 167; p. 267, fig. 174.
The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 31 (11), p. 221.
Purchased from Eustache de Lorey, Paris, 1934; continuously exhibited and frequently published since that time; included in interational exhibition Cleopatra’s Egypt, Brooklyn and Munich, 1988, and La Gloire d’Alexandrie, Paris 1998
View #1 front right profile left rear left profile b&w, detail of King, right
Along with his studies at the Islamic city of Samarra, [Herzfeld’s] research at Persepolis is the best known work of his career.
Persepolis, located in the province of Fars, southwestern Iran, is among the most iconic sites
Mellon Fellow, 2021 References and Further Reading Benson, Elizabeth P.
second half of 1730, and it is known that modeler Johann Gottlieb Kirchner (German, b.
On the back of this rectangular ivory panel, a raised rim surrounds a smooth, recessed compartment, displaying the vertical orientation of the ivory grain. The recessed field provided an area for the panel to receive a thin sheet of wax that could be used as an erasable writing surface
Les Arts 9, no. 100 (April 1910). p. 5.
16th century; glass installed in the chapel of a building constructed on the same site
Smithsonian Institution Research Reports 4 (Spring 1973). p. 4.
