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Band of dervishes preparing and drinking an intoxicating draft

about 1610–1620
Object Place: Iran or Deccan

Medium/Technique Ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions Height x width: 23 × 14.2 cm (9 1/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and by contribution
Accession Number14.649
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, December 17, 2023 – August 4, 2024
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts

Inscriptionssigned by Raqim Muhammadi
ProvenanceBy 1912, Victor Goloubew (b. 1879 - d. 1945), Paris [see note 1]; 1914, sold by Goloubew through M. Meyer-Riefstahl to the MFA for $76,999.81 (total price for 14.532-700). (Accession Date: June 4, 1914)

NOTES:
[1] Victor Goloubew was born in Russia but lived in Paris by the time of this acquisition. He formed this collection of Persian and Indian miniature paintings and exhibited it at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1912 to 1914 (Paull, Florence Virginia. "The Goloubew Collection of Persian and Indian Paintings." Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Vol. XIII. No. 74. (February 1915) 1-16).