- Provenance
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To at least 1931
Octave Homberg, Paris, France. [1]1931
Sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Collection de Octave Homberg, 3-5 June, 1931, no. 103. [2]To 1935
Emile Tabbagh, Paris, France. [3]1935
Sale, Paris, HoĢtel Drouot, Collection de Monsieur Emile Tabbagh, May 20-21, 1935, no. 156. [4]From 1935 to 1942
Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, purchased at the Sale, Paris, HoĢtel Drouot, Collection de Monsieur Emile Tabbagh, May 21, 1935. [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] The object was in the collection of Octave Homberg until June 1931. 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.
[2] See note 1. See also auction catalogue from Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue des tableaux anciens, objets d'art et de haute curiositeĢ europeĢens et orientaux, objets d'extreĢme-Orient, meubles et sieĢges, sculptures et bronzes du XVIIIe sieĢcle, composant la collection de Octave Homberg, no. 103, p. 52, pl. XLVII.
[3] The object was in the collection of Emile Tabbagh of New York and Paris, France by 1935 when it was published in the auction catalogue, Collection de M. Emile Tabbagh: Art Oriental. Paris, May 20-21, 1935. 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 note 3.
[5] See note 3. See also Glenn D. Lowry and Susan Nemazee, A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 35.
[6] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.
[7] See note 6.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Hotel Drouot
Octave Homberg
Galerie Georges Petit 1846-1933
Henri Vever 1854-1942
Emile Tabbagh 1879-80-1933
Francois Mautin 1907-2003
- Description
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Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script, recto: text, four columns, twenty-five lines; verso: illustration and text: Suhrab in combat with Rustam; one of a group of five folios.
Border: The text and the painting are set in gold and black rulings on cream-colored paper.
- Published References
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- Tabbagh FrĆØres. Publication title unknown. cat. 156, p. 25.
- Octave Homberg. Publication title unknown. cat. 103, p. 52, pl. XLVII.
- Glenn D. Lowry, Milo Cleveland Beach, Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Susan Nemanzee, Janet Snyder. An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington and Seattle. cat. 95, pp. 84-85.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
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