* A LARGE COMPOSITION SET OF THIRTEEN MOULDED POTTERY TILES
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
Late Qajar Iran, early 20th century

Each of square shape, painted in a variety of colours including cobalt blue, copper green, pink, manganese purple, yellow and black, the fragmentary moulded composition a late Qajar homage to the 17th-century lively banquet scene frescoed on the walls of the Chehel Sotun Palace in Isfahan, with Shah Abbas II (on the right) receiving Nader Mohammad Khan (on the left), Emir of Turkistan, surrounded by several guests, the busy attendants roaming around bearing wine and food to the attendees, each character colourfully-clad according to the fashion of the time, in the right corner an inebriated man being held by two attendants, in the foreground female dancers entertaining the guest of honour, the composition framed within a band of interlocking split palmette scrolls interspersed amidst stylised lotus flower heads, each tile approximately 33cm x 33cm.