• A Qajar lacquered papier mache qalamdan, Iran, dated 1317AH/1899-1900AD 1899
  • Handicrafts and classics, Wood. lacquer
  • 23.7 cm
  • signed Sani' Humayun, and decorated with the kings of Persia
    of typical form with rounded ends, extensively decorated to lid and sides with enthronement scenes, diplomatic meetings, courtly scenes, each cartouche accompanied by black ink epigraphic captions providing context and details about the scenes, the base and sides of the sliding tray with cusped cartouches featuring philosophers, literati, Sufi shaykhs and pupils, and a woman on horseback clad with a burqa being reunited with her beloved, the interior of the tray painted in polychromes with rosette and flower bouquets against a gold ground
Estimation
£3,000
3,948 USD
- £5,000
6,581 USD
Realized Price
£8,500
11,187 USD
112.5%
Artwork Description

Property of an Important Private Collection; Sotheby's 27 April 2005, Lot 34 A comparable piece painted by Abd al-Husayn Sani’ Humayun is in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, inv.no.2014.331; in Farhad, McWilliams and Retting, A Collector’s Passion. Ezzat-Malek Soudavar and Persian Lacquer, Washington, 2017, p.139, no.120. A penbox with the kings from the Shahnamah, with the same signature and the same date was sold at Christie’s London, 10 October 2006, lot 144. Another qalamdan signed Abdul Hossein Sani’ Humayun and dated 1320 AH/1902 AD was offered at Chiswick, 29 October 2021, lot 223.
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