Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: text, four columns, nineteen lines; verso: illustration and text, Bahram Gur before Shangul; one of a group of three folios.
Border: The text and the painting are set in gold, black and light blue rulings on cream-colored paper.
Provenance:
To at least 1935
Emile Tabbagh, Paris, France. [1]
1935
Sale, Paris, Ho^tel Drouot, Collection de Monsieur Emile Tabbagh, May 20-21, 1935, no. 160. [2]
From 1935 to 1942
Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, purchased at the Sale, Paris, Ho^tel Drouot, Collection de Monsieur Emile Tabbagh, May 21, 1935. [3]
From 1942 to 1986
Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [4]
From 1986
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [5]
Notes:
[1] The object was in the collection of Emile Tabbagh of New York and Paris, France by 1935 when it was published in the auction catalogue, Collection de M. Emile Tabbagh: Art Oriental. Paris, May 20-21, 1935. See Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 7: Chart of Recent Provenance" in An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection, Glenn D. Lowry et al (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 406.
[2] See note 1.
[3] See note 1. See also Glenn D. Lowry and Susan Nemazee, A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 35.
[4] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
[5] See note 4.
Collection:
Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Exhibition History:
Paintings from Shiraz (December 24, 1994 to August 27, 1995)
