Label:FS-7364_15
Title:Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209)
Medium:Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions:H x W: 31.5 x 20.4 cm (12 3/8 x 8 1/16 in)
Previous custodian or owner:Henri Vever (1854-1942), Hotel Drouot, Francois Mautin (1907 - 2003)
Provenance:1908, Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Unidentified Sale, November 24, 1908. [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] "Unidentified sale, Hôtel Drouot, November 24, 1908," 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. 400., [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), pp. 229-231, no. 260., [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:Shiraz, Iran
Credit Line:Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler
Date:ca. 1570-1580
Period:Safavid period
Type:Manuscript
Topic:flower, Safavid period (1501 - 1722), Iran, Arts of the Islamic World, Henri Vever collection
Attribution:Smithsonian Institution