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ArtChart | A lacquered papier mache qalamdan signed 303 Samirumi, Iran, dated 1327 AH/1909 AD by Unknown Artist

Unknown Artist
A lacquered papier mache qalamdan signed 303 Samirumi, Iran, dated 1327 AH/1909 AD 1909
Handicrafts and classics, Wood. lacquer
20 cm
of typical form with rounded ends and sliding tray, portraits in gold frame of a dervish (probably Nur 'Ali Shah) carrying an axe, and parakeets on a dense ground of fine gold flowers and vine on black, six landscaoe scenes to sides, the tray sides and base with similar gold decoration on a red ground, 20cm. long Provenance: Property from an Important Private Collection; Sotheby's 27 April 2005, Lot 38 Published: Robinson, ‘Lacquer, Oil Paintings and Later Arts of the Book’ in Treasures of Islam, ed. By T. Falk, Geneva, 1985, p.187, no 173 An almost identical qalamdan by Samirumi is in the British Museum inv. no. 2016,6035.4. Another qalamdam signed by Muhammad Baqir Samirumi and dated 1323 AH is in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection, London, inv.no.LAQ336, published in Khalili, Robinson and Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part II, London, 1997, p.248, no.484. Three more are in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, inv.nos.S2014.17.86,87 and 2014.316; published in Farhad, McWilliams and Retting, A Collector’s Passion. Ezzat-Malek Soudavar and Persian Lacquer, Washington, 2017, p.158, nos.178-180.