A QAJAR PAPIER MACHE POLYCHROME LACQUER QALAMDAN with rounded ends and sliding tray, the warm beige top painted with a polychrome cartouche of a lioness and two cubs flanked by grisaille and gold gul-i-bulbul designs of rose sprays with perching birds, the sides with similar plum-blossom sprays with birds flanked by polychrome cartouches depicting rabbits, the base and tray painted with pairs of gold arching floral sprays, the top with four very fine inscription panels (minute restoration, re-lacquered)

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A QAJAR PAPIER MACHE POLYCHROME LACQUER QALAMDAN with rounded ends and sliding tray, the warm beige top painted with a polychrome cartouche of a lioness and two cubs flanked by grisaille and gold gul-i-bulbul designs of rose sprays with perching birds, the sides with similar plum-blossom sprays with birds flanked by polychrome cartouches depicting rabbits, the base and tray painted with pairs of gold arching floral sprays, the top with four very fine inscription panels (minute restoration, re-lacquered)
8¾in. (19.6cm.) long

Lot Essay

The inscriptions are partly illegible. Those that can be read translate: by the order of ... the confidant of the Sultan, the special General and Adjutant of His Majesty, ..., while in the centre is the usual punning signature of Fath'ala Shirazi with the date 1297 (1879-80 AD)

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