A SEATED PORTRAIT OF NADIR SHAH (1688 - 1747), FOUNDER OF THE AFSHARID DYNASTY
Iran, 20th century

Oil on canvas, the seated portrait depicting Nadir Shah in full regalia, wearing a long pink robe and a tall red turban embellished with strands of pearls and three black heron feathers, seated in a typical Qajar interior, a foliate cusped cartouche to his right in-filled with the sitter's name, the subject and composition echoing 19th-century official Qajar royal portraits, the reduced scale and naive pictorial quality aligned with the 20th-century Iranian production of 'Coffee House Paintings', mounted, glazed and framed, 51.5cm x 51.5cm including the frame.

Provenance: Property from a private UK-based collector, bought in 1986 and in their collection since.

Dimensions: 51.5cm x 51.5cm including the frame