271 - Three lacquered wood beard combs,

Three lacquered wood beard combs, late Zand or Qajar Iran, 18th/19th century, of near square form, the central part intricately illustrated, the first with trefoils issuing from a lobed mandorla containing a rose spray, trefoils either side, its reverse with affronted half lobed mandorlas with floral sprays, on profuse gilt and polychrome floral field, the sides with felines pouncing on their preys and hares ; the second with a scene depicting a mounted mullah or sheikh and maiden, an footman behind, in a landscape, the open worked sides with a quatrefoil flanked by roundels, its reverse with and entrelacs of foliated tendrils forming a central lobed medallions ; the third with an elongated floral lobed cartouche, 11.5 x 13.5cm., 10.5 x 14.5cm., 12 x 8.5cm.