Property from an Important Private Collection A lacquered papier-mache pencase (qalamdan) Qajar Iran, 19th century, Of typical shape, the polychrome painted decoration consisting of a portrait of a standing youth wearing a white tunic and sufi hat, portraits of a crouching man and of a mustachioed man above and below on black and gold foliated grounds, the sides with large cartouches, one with a steamer at sea, the other with a riverine landscape, the base with elegant gold scrollwork of serrated leaves and flowers, the tray with similar decoration and old inventory label 19.5cm. long

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