Label:FS-7422_17
Title:Folio from an unidentified text; verso: Prophet Muhammad preaches after the Battle of the Ditch; recto: text
Medium:Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper
Dimensions:H x W: 24.2 x 17.1 cm (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in)
Previous custodian or owner:Henri Vever (1854-1942), Francois Mautin (1907 - 2003)
Provenance:1930, Unidentified sale, 1930, no. 134 [1], To 1942, Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, to 1942 [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. 408., [2] See Glenn D. Lowry et al., An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 268, no. 316., [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.
Origin:Isfahan, Iran
Credit Line:Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
Date:circa 1590
Period:Safavid period
Type:Manuscript
Topic:Muhammad, Safavid period (1501 - 1722), Iran, preaching, Caliph Ali, Arts of the Islamic World, prophet, Henri Vever collection, mimbar
Attribution:Smithsonian Institution