A POLYCHROME LACQUER PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PENCASE (QALAMDAN)

ATTRIBUTABLE TO 'ABD AL-HUSAYN SANI' HUMAYUN, QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY

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A POLYCHROME LACQUER PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PENCASE (QALAMDAN)
ATTRIBUTABLE TO 'ABD AL-HUSAYN SANI' HUMAYUN, QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Of typical form with rounded ends and sliding tray, the polychrome painted decoration consisting of portraits of young Qajar ladies in European dress and exotic birds in smaller medallions interspersed with a larger central cartouche with horses in meadows, the base and sliding tray with intricate scrolling floral garland on red ground
9in. (22.8cm.) long

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Three qalamdans attributed to 'Abd al-Husayn Sani Humayun, now found in the Khalilli collection, show a similar iconography and layout as our pencase (Nasser D. Khalili, B.W. Robinson and Tim Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part Two, London, 1996, cat.472-474, pp.368-369 and 242)

ATTRIBUTABLE TO 'ABD AL-HUSAYN SANI' HUMAYUN, QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY

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