Portrait of a Qajar noble

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Portrait of a Qajar noble
Persia, AH 1281/1864-5 AD

gouache on paper, a bearded man with clasped hands wearing a brown overcoat and tall black hat sits frontally (trimmed, one small tear, water stain), signed Sayyid Ahmad al-Hamdani(?) and dated 1281
leaf 9½ x 7in. (24 x 17.7cm.)

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