# Gallery Talk: Qajar Lacquer as a Medium of Exchange #### calendar\_today Date and Time **November 28, 2017** 12:30PM - 01:00PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138** **The Harvard Art Museums** present a gallery talk led by **Mary McWilliams** ![Mirror Case with Flowers and Birds](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/cmes/files/nov28galltalkpic.jpg?itok=R0Elhgud) Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museums Gallery talks are free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and **tickets are required.** Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk. Please meet in the **Calderwood Courtyard**, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets. Gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus on aspects of the installation process, exploring both intellectual and more practical considerations. Museums staff will, for example, tease out arguments at play in the galleries, discuss conservation treatments, look closely at specific collections, or draw connections between works of art throughout the museums. [Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran](http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/visit/exhibitions/5117/technologies-of-the-image-art-in-19th-century-iran) is on view through January 7, 2018. *Image:* Mirza Jani ibn Ahmad, *Mirror Case with Flowers and Birds*, Iran, c. 1825–50. Opaque watercolor, gold-color pigments, platy hematite particles, and lacquer on pasteboard; HUAM. **Link:** **Contact:** HUAM 617-495-9400 See also:- [ Non-CMES Event ](/eventseries/non-cmes-event) - [ Film & Visual Art ](/research-field/film-visual-art) - [ History of Art & Architecture ](/research-field/history-art-architecture) - [ Iran ](/research-region/iran) - [ 2017-18 ](/academic-year/2017-18) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/node/1066931/event-feed.ics) Copy link link