*A QAJAR POLYCHROME-ENAMELLED COPPER AND LEATHER QALYAN BOTTLE WITH MATCHING BASE

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

Iran, 19th century

Of pyriform shape, resting on a matching circular copper base with three rounded feet, rising to a tapering neck ending in an everted circular mouth, the polychrome-painted enamel decoration on the neck consisting of typical Qajar motifs such as oval portraits of bejewelled courtly youths amidst lobed cartouches filled with roses, blue flowers and golden trellis against a cobalt blue ground, the base with lobed cartouches filled with floral motifs interspersed with rosettes, 15cm diam. and 23cm high.