Composite album folio, calligraphy, standing youth, lady with a cup

Object Details

• Artist

  ascribed to Muhammad Sadiqi (died 1610)

  ascribed to Ustad Muhammad Qasim

• Calligrapher

  Sultan Ali al-Mashhadi

• Description

  Detached album folio: top of the page: calligraphic panel in Arabic black nasta'liq script, signed by Sultan Ali Mashhadi; bottom right: Youth standing, ascribed to Ustad Muhammad Qasim; bottom left: Lady with a cup, ascribed to Sadiqi, bottom page: stamp.

  Border: The painting is set in green, gold and black rulings in an inner frame of calligraphy panels, in Persian black nasta'liq script, with golden flowers and a gold outer frame, mounted on a board with gold floral motifs on a blue ground.

• Inscriptions

  Triangular panel, top right, "written by Sultan Ali Mashhadi."

  Bottom right, "master Muhammad Qasim."

  Bottom left, "Sadiqi."

• Provenance

  From at least 1910

  Léonce Rosenberg (1879-1947), Paris, from at least 1910 [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] The object is documented as having appeared in the collection of Léonce Rosenberg by at least July 21, 1910. 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. 409.

  [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), p. 306, no. 356.

  [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.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  Nasta’liq: The Genius of Persian Calligraphy (September 13, 2014 to May 3, 2015)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Léonce Rosenberg (1879-1947)

  Henri Vever (1854-1942)

  Francois Mautin (1907-2003)

• Origin

  Probably Qazwin, Iran

• Credit Line

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

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Mautin, Francois Albert, Rosenberg, Léonce, Vever, Henri

• Place

  Qazwin

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Henri Vever collection, Arts of the Islamic World, Woman

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Language

  Nasta?li-q script

• Object Type

  Paintings