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FS-7364_15

Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami (d.1209)

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

H x W: 31.5 x 20.4 cm (12 3/8 x 8 1/16 in)

Henri Vever (1854-1942)

Hotel Drouot

Francois Mautin (1907 - 2003)

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.

Shiraz, Iran

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

ca. 1570-1580

Safavid period

Manuscript

flower

Safavid period (1501 - 1722)

Iran

Arts of the Islamic World

Henri Vever collection

Smithsonian Institution