Object Details
- Description
- Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi, Khusraw Parviz seated on the Takht-i taqdis; one of a group of three folios.
- The painting was cut from the text and mounted on a board.
- Provenance
- 1912
- Arthur Sambon (1867-1947), Paris, France. [1]
- From at least 1913
- Léonce Rosenberg (1879-1947), Paris, France. [2]
- To at least 1931
- Octave Homberg, Paris, France. [3]
- 1931
- Sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Collection de Octave Homberg, 3-5 June, 1931, no. 102. [4]
- To 1942
- Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France. [5]
- From 1942 to 1986
- Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [6]
- From 1986
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [7]
- Notes:
- [1] 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. According to the publication, it was an ex-collection of Arthur Sambon. See Ricci, Seymour de, Catalogue d’une Collection de Miniatures Gothiques et Persanes Appartenant à Léonce Rosenberg (Paris: Montassier et Odend’hal, 1913), p. 42, no. 136.
- [2] At the time of the publication of Ricci, Seymour de, Catalogue d’une Collection de Miniatures Gothiques et Persanes Appartenant à Léonce Rosenberg (Paris: Montassier et Odend’hal, 1913), the manuscript folio was in the collection of Léonce Rosenburg.
- [3] 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.
- [4] See auction catalogue from Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue des tableaux anciens, objets d'art et de haute curiosité européens et orientaux, objets d'extrême-Orient, meubles et sièges, sculptures et bronzes du XVIIIe siècle, composant la collection de Octave Homberg, no. 102, p. 51.
- [5] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
- [6] See note 5.
- [7] See note 5.
- Collection
- Arthur M. Sackler Collection
- Exhibition History
- A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Henri Vever (1854-1942)
- Octave Homberg
- Léonce Rosenberg (1879-1947)
- Arthur Sambon (1867-1947)
- Francois Mautin (1907-2003)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- ca. 1425-1450
- Period
- Delhi Sultanate period
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 15.3 x 17.9 cm (6 x 7 1/16 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
