*AN ALBUM OF TRADESMEN AND THEIR COSTUMES Qajar Iran, 19th century

*AN ALBUM OF TRADESMEN AND THEIR COSTUMES
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Qajar Iran, 19th century

Opaque pigments on paper, pasted on board, 12ff., containing images of a ribbon maker, a drummer, two wood carvers, a pomegranate vendor, a potato seller, a wood cutter, a paper burnisher, a coppersmith, a tobacco seller, a tailor, and a textile burnisher, each within gold, red, and blue rulings, bound in fine moharramat termeh shawl cloth from Yazd in dark blue and white stripes in-filled with scrolling friezes within calf borders, the folio 22.8cm x 17cm., the panel 15cm x 10.5cm.
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