Jay Gluck (1927-2000), an American expert in art history and a collector, was a student of A. U. Pope, a distinguished expert in the Persian art history.
He was affiliated with the Asia Institute in Shiraz, founded by Pope as a research institute for Persian art and archeology.
Moreover, he studied and collected Iranian art and crafts from the latter half of the 1960s to the 1970s.
After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, he lived in Kobe with his Japanese wife.
Before he returned to the United States later in life, Minpaku accepted a part of his craft collection in 2000.
The West Asia exhibition displays a “tear bottle” and pen cases from the Gluck collection, which are important as exhibits of the folk craft of modern Iran.
This database has been built with the collaboration of Dr. Yuka Kadoi (Senior Researcher, University of Vienna).
Display Mr. Jay Gluck Persian Handicraft Collection