TWO POLYCHROME-PAINTED FIGURAL POTTERY VASES
Late Qajar and Pahlavi Iran, 20th century

TWO POLYCHROME-PAINTED FIGURAL POTTERY VASES
Late Qajar and Pahlavi Iran, 20th century

Comprising a moulded and polychrome-painted pottery vase, of typical inverted baluster shape, rising to broad shoulders, with a straight, short, circular rim, the body decorated with two pairs of figures en plein air including a young maiden with a red hood offering a drinking cup to an elderly man, and a young man holding a drinking bottle entertained by a courtly musician, all interspersed amidst large floral stems with large, curved and serrated leaves, 30.5cm high; and another smaller, painted with the renowned Persian literary topos of the Armenian princess Shirin visiting the rock carver Farhad at Mount Bisotun, a scene narrated in the famous Medieval love epic by Nizami Ganjavi, Khosrow o Shirin, 27cm high.

Dimensions: the tallest 30.5cm high