QAJAR IRAN, PROBABLY SHIRAZ, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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TWO ARCHITECTURAL FANTASIES
QAJAR IRAN, PROBABLY SHIRAZ, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Oil on canvas, two panels, the white ground of each with bold gold scrolling arabesques overlaying spiralling floral tendrils and perching birds around a dense central bouquet above, on one, a dove and her chicks, on the other a heron and a fox, traces of dark varnish, slight retouching, relined
Each 26¾ x 33 5/8in. (68 x 85.5cm.) (2)

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium Please note that the lots of Iranian origin are subject to U.S. trade restrictions which currently prohibit the import into the United States. Similar restrictions may apply in other countries.

拍品专文

These panels were probably originally painted on plaster and have since been lifted onto canvas. A group of ten closely related panels which come from a house in Shiraz are in the Khalili Collection (Stephen Vernoit, Occidentalism, the Nasser D. Khalili Collection, London, 1997, no.82, p.145).