A POLYCHROME LACQUER PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PENCASE (QALAMDAN)

RUSSIA IN THE STYLE OF MUHAMMAD JAVAD, 19TH CENTURY

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A POLYCHROME LACQUER PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PENCASE (QALAMDAN)
RUSSIA IN THE STYLE OF MUHAMMAD JAVAD, 19TH CENTURY
Of typical form with rounded ends and sliding tray, the polychrome painted decoration with a young woman within a cartouche, a rose bush above and below against red ground, the sides with panoramic views of a city and of a fortified settlement on a river bank within elongated oval medallions
9 1/8in. (23.3cm.) long

Lot Essay

For two comparable Qajar qalamdans, one with similar landscape panoramic views, the other with three quarter portrait of a standing lady and signed Muhammad Javad, see Nasser D. Khalili, B.W. Robinson and Tim Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part Two, London, 1996, cat. 450 and 468, p. 225-235
For further discussion on Muhammad Javad, see Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives and Art of Old Painters of Iran, London, 1991, p. 138

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