Folio from an unidentified text; recto: Seated man pours wine; verso: A seated woman pours wine

Object Details

• Artist

  Ustad Hajji

• Description

  Detached album folio; recto: Seated man pours wine; verso: A seated woman pours wine, inscription on the bottom right of the verso.

  Border: The recto is set in green and black rulings with an inner frame of floral scrolls, mounted on a paperboard with marginal medallions. The verso is set in green and black rulings with an inner frame of floral scrolls mounted on paperboard.

• Inscriptions

  Verso: bottom right, "work of Ustad Hajji"

• Provenance

  Albert Besnard [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] 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. 410.

  [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. 330, no. 393.

  [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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Albert Besnard

  Henri Vever (1854-1942)

  Francois Mautin (1907-2003)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

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

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1900s, 1850s

• Name

  Mautin, Francois Albert, Besnard, Albert, Vever, Henri

• Topic

  Wine and wine making, Art, Henri Vever collection, Qajar period (1779 - 1925), Arts of the Islamic World, Woman

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts