A FINE ZAND-STYLE OPENWORK BRASS CENSER
Qajar Iran, early 19th century

Gourd-shaped, the flared bulbous body resting on a cylindrical stand on a stepped circular base, the dome-shaped lid resting on a widely everted rim, the full censer pierced with fine openwork decorations consisting of interlocking vegetal scrolls, flower heads and foliage, at the base and top of the main body calligraphic cartouches interspersed with roundels with Qajar youths in a garden, larger filled-in roundels in the central band of the body and lid engraved with courtly banqueting and garden scenes against a floral ground, 47.5cm high.