TWO ILLUSTRATED EROTIC ALBUM PAGES
Qajar Iran, 19th century

Opaque pigments, pencil, ink, and white wash on paper, comprising two illustrated album pages presenting erotic scenes in a horizontal format featuring a shaved man making love to two different women, one fair-skinned, the latter dark-skinned, drawing emphasis on the different ethnicity of the female counterparts, presented in different positions and stance against a plain background, set within concentric red and navy album borders, each illustration approx. 13.5cm x 21.5cm, the full page 19.7cm x 30.1cm.

Provenance: Sotheby’s, London, 30^th April 1992, lot 304.