Folio from a dispersed copy of Yusuf u Zulaykha by Jami; recto: text and illustration, Zulaykha and her maids in a landscape; text in white nasta'liq; one of a group of two folios.
Border: The painting is set in gold, black, and blue rulings on a gold-sprinkled ground mounted on a paperboard with birds and floral motifs.
Provenance:
To at least 1922
Moussa, Tehran, Iran. [1]
1922
Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Objets d'art Anciens de la Perse, May 5-6, 1922, no. 111. [2]
To 1942
Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France. [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 Moussa (M.J.M) until 1922 when it was published in the auction catalogue, Objets d'art anciens de la Perse, May 5-6, 1922. 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. 404.
[2] See note 1.
[3] See note 1.
[4] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
