A QAJAR POLYCROME LACQUER PAPIER MACHE QALAMDAN

BY FATH'ULLAH SHIRAZI, PERSIA, DATED AH 1286/1869-70 AD

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A QAJAR POLYCROME LACQUER PAPIER MACHE QALAMDAN
BY FATH'ULLAH SHIRAZI, PERSIA, DATED AH 1286/1869-70 AD
With rounded ends and sliding tray, the dark brown top with very fine hazlenut and prunus sprays together with carnations and birds around a central oval sang-de-boeuf cartouche containing birds among rose, hydrangea, bluebell and carnation sprays, signed and dated to the right, the sides with central delicate landscape panels flanked by further gul-o bulbul designs divided by further small panels containing scenes with elephants or camels, the red base and tray with fine gold palmette vine around further landscape oval panels, the interior with fitted plain silver covered inkwell, the interior of the case stamped with the maker's seal of Muhammad Jawad, minimal retouching of each end, basically excellent condition
9.7/8in. (25.1cm.) long

拍品專文

A penbox in the Khalili Collection combines the same maker and artist as seen here, albeit seven years earlier (Khalili, Nasser D.; Robinson, B.W., and Stanley, Tim: Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, London, 1997, no.332, p.128). Other penboxes in the same collection show how the artist played with certain motifs which are also found here (nos.333, 334 and 335). Amusingly on one side of the present box the central tent scene is flanked by two small camel spandrels, while the other side flanks an Indian building with elephant spandrels.