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Goblet drum
Vernacular name:Zarb
Vernacular name:Tombak
Date: 1925 ca.
Place Made:Iran, Asia
Serial No: none
Signednone
DescriptionClay drum with goatskin head. Four figurative panels, after the Savafid style, depict scenes of feasting beneath leafy trees. The subjects on one are a lute (tar) player and two ladies, the panel opposite with a servant offering wine to two seated men. A lady in the panel on the stem holds a wine flask and inclines her head towards a seated man drinking wine. The gulbulbul—a rose and nightingale motif found throughout Persia art—appears in several places. A wreath of large roses encircles the foot of the drum.
DimensionsOver all height: 419 mm
Diameter of head: 253 mm
Diameter of bowl: 281 mm
Height of bowl (including upper rim): 222 mm
Diameter of foot: 216 mm
Diameter of aperture at foot: 98 mm
Height of upper rim: 28 mm
Height of foot: 22 mm
Diameter of head: 253 mm
Diameter of bowl: 281 mm
Height of bowl (including upper rim): 222 mm
Diameter of foot: 216 mm
Diameter of aperture at foot: 98 mm
Height of upper rim: 28 mm
Height of foot: 22 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1978 from Wurlitzer-Bruck, New York, New York.
Terms
Credit Line: Purchase funds gift of Barnes and Usher Abell, 1978
Not on view
Object number: 02424