تُنگ قلیان

FS-6364_05

Base of waterpipe

Stone-paste painted under glaze

H x W x D: 19.4 x 19.1 x 19.1 cm (7 5/8 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in)

Dikran Garabed Kelekian (1868-1951)

Kevorkian Foundation

Lester Wolfe

Habib Anavian

Arthur M. Sackler Foundation (founded 1965)

Dikran Khan Kelekian, Paris [1]

The Kevorkian Foundation, New York [2]

1967

Sale, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., December 8, 1967, lot 183, sold by the Kevorkian Foundation, New York [3]

From at least 1967-1975

Lester Wolfe, purchased from the Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., auction [4]

1975

Sale, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., The Lester Wolfe Collection of Persian Pottery and Metalwork, March 14, 1975, lot 131" [5]

1975-1987

The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, purchased from the Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York auction through Habib Anavian on March 14, 1975 [6]

From 1987

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation

Notes:

[1] See provenance information on the Sotheby Parke Bernet auction catalogue of the March 14, 1975 sale, illustrated cat. no. 131, copy in object file.

[2] See note 1.

[3] See note 1.

[4] According to documentation from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Lester Wolfe loaned this object to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from December 12, 1967 through April 9, 1970. Based on the proximity of this loan, Lester Wolfe likely purchased the object directly from the 1967 Sotheby Parke Bernet auction.

[5] See note 1.

[6] See documentations from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation.

Iran

Gift of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation

1650-1700

Safavid period

Vessel

water

Safavid period (1501 - 1722)

Iran

smoking

Arts of the Islamic World

Smithsonian Institution