A QAJAR POLYCHROME LACQUER PAPIER MACHE QALAMDAN

ATTRIBUTED TO MUHAMMAD ISMA'IL, PERSIA, CIRCA 1860

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A QAJAR POLYCHROME LACQUER PAPIER MACHE QALAMDAN
ATTRIBUTED TO MUHAMMAD ISMA'IL, PERSIA, CIRCA 1860
With rounded ends and sliding tray, the red top painted with very fine floral sprays around cusped oval medallions alternating with cartouches showing portraits, an Armenian priest, Europeans riding in a carriage and other similar scenes, the sides with similar flowering vine around small portrait cartouches, the panels of flowering vine divided by intricate landscape panels, the golden base and tray with loose meandering flowering vine, plain silver fitted inkwell with sprung loaded clasp, minimal chipping to ends, basically excellent condition
8.7/8in. (22.5cm.) long

拍品專文

The quality of the painting seen here and the composition are so close to those of the known signed works by this artist that the attribution seems certain. The same figures can be seen on a spectacular mirror case in the Khalili Collection signed by this artist (Khalili, Nasser D.; Robinson, B.W., and Stanley, Tim: Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, volume II, London, 1997, no.261, pp.72-3).