Fath 'Ali Shah, an ambassador, and attendants

QAJAR PERSIA, CIRCA 1820

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Fath 'Ali Shah, an ambassador, and attendants
Qajar Persia, circa 1820
Oil on canvas heightened with gold leaf, in a palace interior, the central vase of flowers on the windowsill is flanked by the seated king with one of his sons to the left and with the ambassador wearing Uzbek or Bokhara costume and two attendants on the right, on floral carpet, re-lined, slight restoration
13 x 37in. (33 x 94cm.)

拍品專文

This small oil painting is reminiscent of a long mural painting originally in the Nigaristan palace executed by th court painter 'Abdallah Khan in 1812-13, depicting the court of Fath 'Ali Shah with foreign ambassadors in a variety of Eastern and Western dress. This painting no longer exists, but for reduced copies in the India Office Library (Robinson, B.W.: Persian Paintings in the India Office Library, London, 1976, pp. 250-3.) Other small scale versions have appeared on the art market in recent years. It is possible that the present lot was done as a souvenir of one particular ambassador's visit to the Persian court.