A LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PEN CASE (QALAMDAN)
A LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PEN CASE (QALAMDAN)

QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY

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A LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PEN CASE (QALAMDAN)
QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Of typical elongated form, the polychrome painted decoration depicting courtly life, the top with a central cartouche depicting two noble youths visiting a mullah, flanked by two other cartouches with mother and child scenes, the sides with a lion hunt and a scene with Shirin bathing and Khusraw on his horse with his hunting retinue in a forested landscape, the base with an elegant gilt floral scroll on red ground, with associated scribe's instruments, with added signature of 'Sadeq' and date of AH 1125/1713-14 AD
9.1/4in. (23.5cm.) long
Provenance
Sir Walter Beaupré Townley, whose property sold at Sotheby's, 30 June 1921, lot 203

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