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A SUPERB LATE SAFAVID RECTANGULAR MIRROR CASE BY 'ALI QULI JUBADAR with hinged cover, the gold ground of the front painted with a single hyacinth rising from primula and other floral sprays flanked by a single hovering insect, in a black border of polychrome flowering vine, the back similar with a rose flanked by two insects and a butterfly, the interior delicately painted with a stylised European lady wearing an approximation to early 16th century dress holding a wine cup and bottle, and extensive hilly landscape behind with a variety of trees, signed in a reserved blank panel 'the work of 'Ali Quli Jubadar' and dated 105 (negligible damages and repairs, basically in excellent condition) knitted patterned woolen slip case

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A SUPERB LATE SAFAVID RECTANGULAR MIRROR CASE BY 'ALI QULI JUBADAR with hinged cover, the gold ground of the front painted with a single hyacinth rising from primula and other floral sprays flanked by a single hovering insect, in a black border of polychrome flowering vine, the back similar with a rose flanked by two insects and a butterfly, the interior delicately painted with a stylised European lady wearing an approximation to early 16th century dress holding a wine cup and bottle, and extensive hilly landscape behind with a variety of trees, signed in a reserved blank panel 'the work of 'Ali Quli Jubadar' and dated 105 (negligible damages and repairs, basically in excellent condition) knitted patterned woolen slip case
6¼ x 4in. (16.1 x 10.2cm.)

拍品專文

'Ali Quli Jubadar appears to have been of European, possibly Albanian, birth. Having trained in Europe, his figures have a very competent handling of the facial features as seen here. He had a succesful career at the court of Shah Abbas II in Isfahan; his style gradually becoming more Persian through his life. He contributed a number of paintings to the Leningrad Album. Despite an extensive known oevre, only one other signed piece of lacqer is known, now in the Khalili Collection and shortly to be published. For three works by him and a more extensive biography, see Soudavar, A.: Art of the Persian Courts, New York 1992, pp.369-373.