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Lot 72Ф,R,Y
A fine Zand lacquer mirror case and tool box by Hasan Khodad Persia, dated AH 1192 (AD 1759-60)
26 October 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £31,312.50 inc. premium
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A fine Zand lacquer mirror case and tool box by Hasan Khodad
Persia, dated AH 1192 (AD 1759-60)
Persia, dated AH 1192 (AD 1759-60)
of rectangular form with sliding draw opening to reveal a fitted panel of tools, the cover lifting to reveal a mirror, decorated in polychrome and gilt with floral sprays with perching birds to the cover and reverse, the interior of the lid with young lovers being entertained, signature and date to the inside cover, some tools of watered steel, others with ivory and marine ivory handles
30 x 21.5 x 3.3 cm.
30 x 21.5 x 3.3 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Private UK collection.
Inscriptions: hosn-e kelk-e hasan khodadad ast 1192, 'It is the beauty of the pen of Hasan Khodadad 1192'.
Hasan Khodadad was a painter of Zand period with one recorded work, a mirror case with the same text, dated 1173 (1759-60). (See M. A. Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 1, London, 1985, pp. 152-3). The tools may have been intended for a jeweller as a larger box in the British Museum is described as being for a goldsmith (see R. Ward, Islamic Metalwork, London, 1993, p. 24, no. 13. However, some other related examples have been described as portable surgeon's kits, though it is likely their uses were more general. For another example sold at Sotheby's see Islamic Art, 16 October 1997, lot 71.
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