A POLYCHROME-PAINTED ENAMELLED MINIATURE PORTRAIT PENDANT OF FATH ALI SHAH QAJAR AND TWO QAJAR YOUTHS
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Qajar Iran, 19th century

Comprising three oval gold pendants with polychrome-enamelled painted miniature portraits of the Qajar ruler Fath Ali Shah (r. 1797 - 1834), wearing encrusted epaulets, two crossed strings of pearls around his chest and a gem-studded headband, the drop-shaped cartouche to his right indicating the subject's name; and two Qajar youths, one of them with a tall black Astrakhan fur kaj kolah headdress holding a parrot on his finger, the largest 2.5cm x 1.5cm.