Folio from a <em>Shahnama</em> (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); recto: Lahhak and Farshidward before Afrasiyab; verso: text

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Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); recto: Lahhak and Farshidward before Afrasiyab; verso: text

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayni (known as) Mawsili

Qiwam al-Dawla wa'l-Din

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

H x W: 36.4 x 28.8 cm (14 5/16 x 11 5/16 in)

Henri Vever (1854-1942)

Georges Tabbagh (b. ca. 1870)

Francois Mautin (1907 - 2003)

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. 401.

[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.

Shiraz, Iran

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

S1986.99

February 1341 (Ramadan 741 A.H.); repainted at a later date

Mongol period

Manuscript

Shahnama

Afrasiyab

Mongol period (1220 - 1380)

Iran

Arts of the Islamic World

Henri Vever collection

epic

Inju dynasty (1335 - 1357)

Smithsonian Institution