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Bahram Gur hunting
Qajar Persian, mid-19th century
gold and polychrome lacquer on panel, against a mountainous landscape before a lakeside shore the mounted king hunts deer with bow and arrow accompanied by his attendants on foot, a pack of dogs, prince and two courtiers, a group of nobles approach on horseback from the right and a group of ladies similarly from the left, four horses gallop along the shore behind, in scrolling vine border, (slight crackling), mounted, framed and glazed
16 x 24in. (40.5 x 61cm.)
Qajar Persian, mid-19th century
gold and polychrome lacquer on panel, against a mountainous landscape before a lakeside shore the mounted king hunts deer with bow and arrow accompanied by his attendants on foot, a pack of dogs, prince and two courtiers, a group of nobles approach on horseback from the right and a group of ladies similarly from the left, four horses gallop along the shore behind, in scrolling vine border, (slight crackling), mounted, framed and glazed
16 x 24in. (40.5 x 61cm.)