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QAJAR LACQUER PAPIER-MACHE PENBOX (QALAMDAN)

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Coins: Ancient Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
QAJAR LACQUER PAPIER-MACHE PENBOX (QALAMDAN)
A VERY RARE ANTIQUE QAJAR LACQUER PAPIER-MÂCHÉ DRAGON PENBOX ( QALAMDAN ).PERSIA QAJAR IRAN, CIRCA
18TH CENTURY Of typical form with rounded ends and sliding tray, painted in gold highlighted polychrome lacquer with Animal
figural scenes, the top with a central oval medallion flanked with intricate black gul-o-bulbul, inhabited by a Dragon, each side with
fine Lion and elegant gul-o-bulbul on a ground of gold cloud pattern, each end with cartouches depicting hares in various stances,
the base with three delicate gold floral sprays, in original fitted velvet box, One of the Finest Quality.The artist's treatment of the birds
and bushes on our qalamdan is very close to that found on a pencase signed Fathallah Shirazi and dated AH 1303/1886 AD in the
Nasser D. Khalili Collection (Nasser D. Khalili, B.W. Robinson and Tim Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part Two, London,
1996, cat.336).]A later added inscription on the top panel gives the name of the pencase's owner as Mu’tamad al-Sultan.