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A Qajar Polychrome Lacquered Papier-Maché Pencase (Qalamdan), Persia, Early 19th Century

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Start price: $750

Estimated price: $1,500 - $2,000

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Description: Of
typical form with rounded end and sliding tray, the painted decoration on dense
foliated ground with three large floral medallions, and in between them two
medallion portraits of turbaned youths, the sides with central floral medallion
flanked by two medallion portraits of women on one side, and a male and female
on the other, the closed tip with floral themes, the base and sliding tray with
gold floriated scrolls on black ground.

 

Dimensions: Length
– 22 cm, height, 3.5 cm, width – 4 cm

 

Condition: Craquelure
and scattered paint loss. 
Damage and ware to inner edge of sliding tray