- Artist or Maker
- Koushna Navabi
Tehran, Iran, born 1962, active United Kingdom - Title
- Mussy Duck
- Date Made
- 2016
- Medium
- Sterling silver with various coatings (gold plated, oxidized silver, powder coated)
- Dimensions
- 1 1/8 × 7/8 × 1 5/16 in. (2.8 × 2.3 × 3.3 cm), 27g
- Accession Number
- M.2017.246.1-.5
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
These rings by Koushna Navabi are small yet detailed busts of Mohammad Mossadeq, Iran’s prime minister from 1951 to 1953. In 1952 Mossadeq, a staunch nationalist, ended the British oil concession in Iran, which triggered a confrontation that would lead to his overthrow the following year by a British-and-American-led coup. In contrast with large-scale public monuments, Navabi’s rings function as a personal and portable form of adoration.
- Selected Bibliography
- Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.
