BY ABU'L HASAN GHAFFARI SANI' AL-MULK, QAJAR IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A SERVING MAID REJECTS A MAN'S ADVANCES
BY ABU'L HASAN GHAFFARI SANI' AL-MULK, QAJAR IRAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Gouache on paper, after a European original, the man dressed in frock coat, his arm around a serving girl who pushes him away, watched by an older maid, with associated attribution in 4ll. of black script, slight wear, mounted and framed
Miniature 5 x 7in. (12.6 x17.6cm.)

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The note says this page of water colour painting is the work of Abu'l-Hasan Khan Sani' Al-Mulk, the Chief Painter of the early Nasr al-Din Shah period which he copied from a Sevre plate which [was sent ] from the College of Art to France.

For Abu'l-Hasan¹s biography, see: Khalili, Robinson & Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part Two, cat., no. 365.

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