A QAJAR POLYCHROME LACQUER PAPIER MACHE QALAMDAN with rounded ends and sliding tray, the top painted in the European style with a classical scene of three lightly clad nymphs reclining in a verdant landscape with a Doric tempietto and other buildings in the distance, signed ''Abbas' and dated 1283 (1866-7AD), the sides with similarly lush pastoral scenes within oval panels on a delicately worked gold and black floral repeat pattern, the black base and tray with simple gold borders, associated silver inkwell (relacquered) | Christie's

Lot 176

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A QAJAR POLYCHROME LACQUER PAPIER MACHE QALAMDAN with rounded ends and sliding tray, the top painted in the European style with a classical scene of three lightly clad nymphs reclining in a verdant landscape with a Doric tempietto and other buildings in the distance, signed ''Abbas' and dated 1283 (1866-7AD), the sides with similarly lush pastoral scenes within oval panels on a delicately worked gold and black floral repeat pattern, the black base and tray with simple gold borders, associated silver inkwell (relacquered)

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A QAJAR POLYCHROME LACQUER PAPIER MACHE QALAMDAN with rounded ends and sliding tray, the top painted in the European style with a classical scene of three lightly clad nymphs reclining in a verdant landscape with a Doric tempietto and other buildings in the distance, signed ''Abbas' and dated 1283 (1866-7AD), the sides with similarly lush pastoral scenes within oval panels on a delicately worked gold and black floral repeat pattern, the black base and tray with simple gold borders, associated silver inkwell (relacquered)
9 5/8in. (24.3cm.) long

Lot Essay

Although it is possible that the name 'Abbas has been tampered with, the style is entirely consistent with the work of 'Abbas Shirazi, being particularly close to that in a qalamdan also with scantily clad ladies and with a lengthy inscription dated three years earlier, sold in these rooms 8th October 1991, lot 162

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