A KHATT-I NAKHUNI (FINGER NAIL) PORTRAIT OF NASIR AL-DIN SHAH QAJAR
A KHATT-I NAKHUNI (FINGER NAIL) PORTRAIT OF NASIR AL-DIN SHAH QAJAR
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A KHATT-I NAKHUNI (FINGER NAIL) PORTRAIT OF NASIR AL-DIN SHAH QAJAR

SIGNED 'ALI AKBAR, QAJAR IRAN, CIRCA 1850

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A KHATT-I NAKHUNI (FINGER NAIL) PORTRAIT OF NASIR AL-DIN SHAH QAJAR
SIGNED 'ALI AKBAR, QAJAR IRAN, CIRCA 1850
Portrait in khatt-i nakhuni of the young Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar with a bird behind him, inscribed in the top right, signed lower left edge, pasted onto album page and set between red and beige borders and blue margins, mounted
Portrait 8 1⁄8 x 6 ¾in. (20.5 x 17.2cm.); folio 12 5⁄8 x 9 ¼in. (31.4 x 23.5cm.)
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Please note that the image for this lot appears with the wrong number in the printed catalogue. It is the topmost image on the page.

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Inscription:
In the lobed cartouche, al-sultan ibn al-sultan nasir al-din shah qajar, 'The sultan of the son of the sultan Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar'
In the left margin, raqam-i kamtarin 'ali akbar, 'Drawing of the lowliest 'Ali Akbar'

Both this and the following lot are examples of the nakhuni technique in which the artist uses no ink, pigments or brushes and instead makes impressions in the paper using their fingernail. Nakhuni works can either be calligraphic or representational with both our examples being the latter. The largest collection of khatt-i nakhuni art is found in a group of albums kept in the Gulistan Palace, Tehran. Royal portraits, like the present lot, are a regular subject including an 1850 portrait of Fath ‘Ali Shah signed by ‘Ali Akbar Naqqash (album no. 1570) and a portrait of Nasir al-Din Shah in his youth (album no. 1568). European paintings were another source of inspiration for nakhuni artists and many works are after or directly copy European examples, which was most likely the case for the following lot. For a portrait of a woman in the European style and a greater explanation of the history of khatt-i nakhuni please see Shiva Mihan, "Fingernail Art (I): Three-dimensional Calligraphy and Drawing in the 19th-Century", (Part I: Iran), Digital Orientalist, December 2020).

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