برگی از مجمع التواریخ حافظ ابرو، «جمشید نشسته بر تخت»

FS-7371_13

Folio from a Majma' al-tawarikh (Compendium of history) by Hafiz-i Abru (d.1430); verso: Jamshid enthroned; recto: text

Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper

H x W: 42.6 x 32.6 cm (16 3/4 x 12 13/16 in)

Henri Vever (1854-1942)

Hotel Drouot

Emile Tabbagh (1879-80 - 1933)

Francois Mautin (1907 - 2003)

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. 145. [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. 403.

[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.

Herat, Afghanistan

Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

circa 1425

Timurid period

Manuscript

Timurid period (1378 - 1506)

Afghanistan

throne

Jamshid

Arts of the Islamic World

history

Henri Vever collection

Smithsonian Institution