A QAJAR PAPIER MACHÉ LACQUER PENCASE (QALAMDAN)

SCHOOL OF ABU TALIB AL-MUDARRIS, IRAN, 19TH CENTURY

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A QAJAR PAPIER MACHÉ LACQUER PENCASE (QALAMDAN)
SCHOOL OF ABU TALIB AL-MUDARRIS, IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
With curved sides and sliding tray, painted with cusped cartouches on a marbled black ground, with scrolling vine borders, the exterior of the tray and the underside of the pencase with similar cartouches on a red ground, minor chips to the curved end of the pencase
8½in. (22cm.) long

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Lot Essay

A very similar signed example by Abu Talib dated AH 1268/1851-52 AD is in a private collection which was exhibited at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (Mary McWilliams and David J. Roxburgh, Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600-1900, New Haven, 2007, fig. 43, p. 61).

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