Property from an Important Private Collection A lacquered papier-mache pencase (qalamdan) Qajar...
Property from an Important Private Collection
A lacquered papier-mache pencase (qalamdan)
Qajar Iran, 19th century
Of typical form, the polychrome painted decoration consisting of three portraits of foreign figures, a three quarters portrait of a European lady, a standing portrait of a Highlander above and of a Chinese courtesan holding a fan below, on scrolling gold flowers grounds, scrolling foliated tendrils around, the sides with an African and a European boy within roundel on similar ground and framed by similar registers
21.2cm long
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Property from an Important Private Collection
A lacquered papier-mache pencase (qalamdan)
Qajar Iran, 19th century
Of typical form, the polychrome painted decoration consisting of three portraits of foreign figures, a three quarters portrait of a European lady, a standing portrait of a Highlander above and of a Chinese courtesan holding a fan below, on scrolling gold flowers grounds, scrolling foliated tendrils around, the sides with an African and a European boy within roundel on similar ground and framed by similar registers
21.2cm long
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