Fath 'Ali Shah with an ambassador and attendants

QAJAR PERSIA, CIRCA 1820

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Fath 'Ali Shah with an ambassador and attendants
Qajar Persia, circa 1820
Oil on canvas heightened with gold leaf, in a palace interior with a central vase of flowers on a windowsill flanked by the seated Shah with the crown prince Abbas Mirza to his right, the ambassador wearing Turkish dress to his left, a young Turkish attendant kneeling before the Shah, two standing court attendants behind the ambassador, framed
12¼ x 36¾in. (31 x 93.5cm.)

Lot Essay

A remarkably similar painting was sold in these rooms 25 April 1997, lot 106. The ambassador appears to be the same though in different dress, and the vase of flowers and attendant figures are also present, although there the prince is a younger son of Fath 'Ali. The other picture lacks the smaller attendant of the ambassador, who here appears to be about to receive some gift from the Shah, though the object seems not to have been painted in.
See also note to that lot.

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