拍品 149
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A KHATAMKARI CALLIGRAPHIC FRAME
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A KHATAMKARI CALLIGRAPHIC FRAME

SIGNED MUHAMMAD HUSAYN SHIRAZI, QAJAR IRAN, CIRCA 1900

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A KHATAMKARI CALLIGRAPHIC FRAME
SIGNED MUHAMMAD HUSAYN SHIRAZI, QAJAR IRAN, CIRCA 1900
Of rectangular form, the wooden frame inlaid with wood, brass, green-stained bone, mother-of-pearl and ivory khatamkari work (micromosaic), each side with two black cartouches containing nasta'liq ivory inscriptions, the two long ends with similar quatrefoil cartouches in the middle bearing maker's name, slight restoration to some areas
22 x 18 3/8in. (56 x 46.1cm.)
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拍品专文

The Persian qasida is in praise of the frame, which holds the portrait of the king (unidentified), with allusions to shell and pearl, casket and jewels.

Muhammad Husayn Shirazi (1883-1952) was from a family of khatam makers. He was among the craftsmen responsible for the Khatam Hall at the Marble Palace in Tehran which was built by Reza Shah. The other workers there included his father Muhammad Kazim and brother Haji Muhammad. (M.A. Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol., 2, London, 1990, footnote on p. 706).