AN ENGRAVED SILVER CIGARETTE CASE
Isfahan, Pahlavi Iran, circa 1950, stamped Reza

Of rectangular shape, with a hinged opening, the front engraved with ghalam zani decoration featuring two addorsed long-tailed birds either side of a peony cartouche reserved with foliage and two further regardant long-tailed birds within a shaped vignette, all reserved with rosettes, arabesques, and vegetal meanders, and edged with a rosette border, the reverse with an eight-pointed star reserved with arabesques and cornered with long-tailed birds, foliate scrolls, and arabesques, all edged with a rosette border, the interior gilt and stamped with workshop mark Reza (رضا) and standard mark '84' (۸۴), 11.2cm long, 175gr.