A QAJAR LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ CIRCULAR BOX

SIGNED SAYYID ISFAHANI, IRAN, MID-19TH CENTURY

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A QAJAR LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ CIRCULAR BOX
SIGNED SAYYID ISFAHANI, IRAN, MID-19TH CENTURY
With separate cover, the painted grisaille decoration with nightingale in rose bushes (gul-o-bulbul) the borders with a continuous inscription in thuluth script between two bands of gilt geometric forms on red ground, the sides with similar decoration, the base with gilt radiating concentric roundels issuing stylized foliate palmettes
7½in. (19cm.) diam.

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Sayyid Isfahani is also the maker of a similar box, dated AH 1270/1853-4 AD, in the Nasser D. Khalili collection (Nasser D. Khalili, B. W. Robinson, Tim Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part two, p.95, fig.296)

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