Folio from an unidentified text; recto: blank; verso: A prince and princess surrounded by courtiers in a garden, right-hand half of a double-page

FS-7365_27

Folio from an unidentified text; recto: blank; verso: A prince and princess surrounded by courtiers in a garden, right-hand half of a double-page

Usage conditions apply

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

H x W: 25.4 x 16.1 cm (10 x 6 5/16 in)

Henri Vever (1854-1942)

Hotel Drouot

Moussa

Francois Mautin (1907 - 2003)

To at least 1922

Moussa, Tehran, Iran. [1]

1922

Sale, Paris, Ho^tel Drouot, Objets d'art Anciens de la Perse, May 5-6, 1922, no. 112. [2]

To 1942

Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France. [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 Moussa (M.J.M) until 1922 when it was published in the auction catalogue, Objets d'art anciens de la Perse, May 5-6, 1922. 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.

[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.

probably Shiraz, Iran

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

S1986.141.1

ca. 1480

Turkmen period

Manuscript

Turkmen period (1378 - 1508)

Aq Qoyunlu dynasty (1378 - 1501)

garden

percussion instrument

harp

Iran

prince

princess

Arts of the Islamic World

Henri Vever collection

Smithsonian Institution