A QAJAR LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ SQUARED PEN CASE (QALAMDAN) WITH MOHAMMAD SHAH QAJAR (1808 - 1848)
Qajar Iran, dated 1261 AH (1845 AD)

A QAJAR LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ SQUARED PEN CASE (QALAMDAN) WITH MOHAMMAD SHAH QAJAR (1808 - 1848)
Qajar Iran, dated 1261 AH (1845 AD)

With square ends and removable lid, polychrome-painted, gilt, and lacquered, the top painted with a standing portrait of the third ruler of the Qajar dynasty, Mohammad Shah (r. 1834 - 1848), wearing a tall bejewelled black kajkolah headdress, holding a golden staff in one hand and showing off an encrusted rosette-shaped belt buckle with the latter, standing behind him a nobleman, possibly his advisor, in a long striped termeh coat and a young prince with a gold-embroidered coat, possibly his son and successor to the throne, the young Nasir al-Din Shah (r. 1848 - 1896), above the shah an identifying inscription in red ink nasta'liq script and the date 1261 AH, the reverse of the lid with a standing portrait of another Qajar nobleman with a striped termeh belt around his waist, set against an idealised natural landscape, the sides decorated with a homage to Qajar hunting scenes, the underside with large illuminated gilt floral scrolls with lotus flowers and roses on red ground, the interior plain and painted in green, 28cm long.

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Dimensions: 28cm long