SIGNED BY HAYDAR 'ALI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1279/1862-63 AD

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A QAJAR POLYCHROME LACQUER PAPIER MÂCHÉ MIRROR CASE
SIGNED BY HAYDAR 'ALI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1279/1862-63 AD
Of rectangular form with hinged cover, the front with a depiction of 'Ali Muhammad Khan standing in a landscape, the reverse with a young lady holding a small glass also in a landscape, both of the vignettes with floral spandrels and upper and lower inscription cartouches in nasta'liq identifiying the figure and with signature and date, both within gold and polychrome floral borders, the interior Imam 'Ali seated and nimbate within a cartouche
4¾ x 3 1/8in. (11.9 x 8cm.)

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Lot Essay

Haydar 'Ali, son of the artist Muhammad Isma'il naqqashbashi, was renowned for painting qalamdans with Nasir al-Din Shah and courtiers of the period. For his biography and a list of works, see Mohammad Ali Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives and Art of Old Painters of Iran and a Selection of Masters from the Ottoman and Indian Regions (London, 1985, vol. 1, pp.163-64). A pencase decorated with portraits of Sheikh Baha'i and various other Sufis which is attributed to Haydar 'Ali is in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection (Nasser D. Khalili, B.W.Robinson and Tim Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part Two, London, 1997, p.39-41, no.236).

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