TEHERAN, PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
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TWO QAJAR MOULDED POTTERY TILES
TEHERAN, PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
Each of rectangular form, one showing Shirin bathing with Prince Khosraw approaching on horseback, the other with a courting couple in a landscape, both with the figures and details in relief against a cobalt-blue ground, a band of gul-o-bulbul running along the top of each tile, both in wooden Syrian frames with floral decoration and inlaid bone star-motifs
16 x 13¼in. (41 x 34cm.) (2)
TEHERAN, PERSIA, CIRCA 1880
Each of rectangular form, one showing Shirin bathing with Prince Khosraw approaching on horseback, the other with a courting couple in a landscape, both with the figures and details in relief against a cobalt-blue ground, a band of gul-o-bulbul running along the top of each tile, both in wooden Syrian frames with floral decoration and inlaid bone star-motifs
16 x 13¼in. (41 x 34cm.) (2)