Object Details
- Description
- Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: text, six columns, twenty three lines; verso: Rustam slays a div.
- Border: The text and the painting are set in gold and black rulings on cream-colored paper.
- Provenance
- Georges Tabbagh, Paris, France. [1]
- To 1942
- Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France. [2]
- From 1942 to 1986
- Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [3]
- From 1986
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [4]
- 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. 410.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
- [4] See note 3.
- Collection
- Arthur M. Sackler Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Henri Vever (1854-1942)
- Georges Tabbagh (b. ca. 1870)
- Francois Mautin (1907-2003)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- circa 1760
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 52.1 x 35.2 cm (20 1/2 x 13 7/8 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
