* A QAJAR LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PEN CASE (QALAMDAN) WITH BERRIES
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
Iran, 19th century

With rounded ends and sliding tray, lacquered, polychrome-painted and heightened in gold, the top and sides painted with a horizontal composition of leafy branches stretching to the sides and pairs of berries amidst the foliage, the tip of the leaves heightened in green, the berries in red, the base and underside in plain burgundy red, within gilt rulings, 21.5cm long.