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A Court Feast
Qajar, circa 1870
gold and polychrome lacquer on panel, in a pavillion open at the sides onto a luxuriant garden, a saint, wearing an Indian Turban and a gold embroidered coat over red robes, sits leaning against a blue bolster, to either side of him kneel ten nobles with three low tables before them, each adorned with a large bowl of rice surrounded by dishes of various sweetmeats, servants attend the diners both inside the pavillion and out, black and gold meandering floral border, (crackling and minor flaking), mounted, framed and glazed
16¼ x 23¾in. (41.3 x 60.3cm.)
Qajar, circa 1870
gold and polychrome lacquer on panel, in a pavillion open at the sides onto a luxuriant garden, a saint, wearing an Indian Turban and a gold embroidered coat over red robes, sits leaning against a blue bolster, to either side of him kneel ten nobles with three low tables before them, each adorned with a large bowl of rice surrounded by dishes of various sweetmeats, servants attend the diners both inside the pavillion and out, black and gold meandering floral border, (crackling and minor flaking), mounted, framed and glazed
16¼ x 23¾in. (41.3 x 60.3cm.)