TEHERAN, PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
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A QAJAR TILE PANEL
TEHERAN, PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
Comprising forty tiles, the central panel of twenty-four with an elaborate depiction of the appearance of Yusuf before Zulaikha in her chamber in the palace, her ladies showing the wonder at his beauty, surrounded by various vessels, under a cusped cobalt-blue arch containing scrolling arabesques and flowering vine, the remaining tiles forming the border of pictorial cartouches on a green floral ground between white floral meander and minor plain stripes, one tile from a very similar panel
Overall approx. 28 x 56in. (71 x 142cm.) (40)
TEHERAN, PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
Comprising forty tiles, the central panel of twenty-four with an elaborate depiction of the appearance of Yusuf before Zulaikha in her chamber in the palace, her ladies showing the wonder at his beauty, surrounded by various vessels, under a cusped cobalt-blue arch containing scrolling arabesques and flowering vine, the remaining tiles forming the border of pictorial cartouches on a green floral ground between white floral meander and minor plain stripes, one tile from a very similar panel
Overall approx. 28 x 56in. (71 x 142cm.) (40)