A LONG FINE PANEL OF CUERDA SECA QAJAR TILES comprising sixty-three square tiles forming a complete design, the yellow ground painted with floral sprays around three large pictorial cartouches depicting hunting and battle scenes, each of the cartouches with a nasta'liq inscription panel, the three cartouches divided by panels containing Assyrian type soldiers, in a border of small arcading containing rose sprays, 19th century (very slight damages and repair, border joined at one end)

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A LONG FINE PANEL OF CUERDA SECA QAJAR TILES comprising sixty-three square tiles forming a complete design, the yellow ground painted with floral sprays around three large pictorial cartouches depicting hunting and battle scenes, each of the cartouches with a nasta'liq inscription panel, the three cartouches divided by panels containing Assyrian type soldiers, in a border of small arcading containing rose sprays, 19th century (very slight damages and repair, border joined at one end)
overall 29¾ x 166in. (75.5 x 422cm.) (3)

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Lot Essay

The inscriptions combine to read (in translation):
Made to the order of Agha Hajji Mirza Hasan, 1230 in the workshop of the humble one, Mirza Abd al-Razzaq.
It is probable that the date has been altered.

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