Folio from a Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020); Khusraw Parviz seated on the Takht-i Taqdis

Object Details

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi, Khusraw Parviz seated on the Takht-i taqdis; one of a group of three folios.

  The painting was cut from the text and mounted on a board.

• Provenance

  1912

  Arthur Sambon (1867-1947), Paris, France. [1]

  From at least 1913

  Léonce Rosenberg (1879-1947), Paris, France. [2]

  To at least 1931

  Octave Homberg, Paris, France. [3]

  1931

  Sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Collection de Octave Homberg, 3-5 June, 1931, no. 102. [4]

  To 1942

  Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France. [5]

  From 1942 to 1986

  Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [6]

  From 1986

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [7]

  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. 404. According to the publication, it was an ex-collection of Arthur Sambon. See Ricci, Seymour de, Catalogue d’une Collection de Miniatures Gothiques et Persanes Appartenant à Léonce Rosenberg (Paris: Montassier et Odend’hal, 1913), p. 42, no. 136.

  [2] At the time of the publication of Ricci, Seymour de, Catalogue d’une Collection de Miniatures Gothiques et Persanes Appartenant à Léonce Rosenberg (Paris: Montassier et Odend’hal, 1913), the manuscript folio was in the collection of Léonce Rosenburg.

  [3] 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. 404.

  [4] See auction catalogue from Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue des tableaux anciens, objets d'art et de haute curiosité européens et orientaux, objets d'extrême-Orient, meubles et sièges, sculptures et bronzes du XVIIIe siècle, composant la collection de Octave Homberg, no. 102, p. 51.

  [5] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.

  [6] See note 5.

  [7] See note 5.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Henri Vever (1854-1942)

  Octave Homberg

  Léonce Rosenberg (1879-1947)

  Arthur Sambon (1867-1947)

  Francois Mautin (1907-2003)

• Origin

  India

• Credit Line

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

• Type

  Manuscript

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  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s

• Name

  Mautin, Francois Albert, Homberg, Octave, Sambon, Arthur, Vever, Henri, Rosenberg, Léonce

• Place

  India

• Topic

  Art, Henri Vever collection, Arts of the Islamic World, Delhi Sultanate (1206 - 1526), Khusraw Parviz, Shahnama

• Culture

  Muslims

• Object Type

  Manuscripts