Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator
Lot 83R
A Qajar lacquer box Persia, late 19th/ early 20th Century
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Oliver White
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A Qajar lacquer box
Persia, late 19th/ early 20th Century
Persia, late 19th/ early 20th Century
of rectangular form with lifting stepped lid, decorated in polychrome and gilt, with cartouches variously containing floral and foliate interlace and vegetal motifs, surrounded by foliate tendrils, all on a ground of floral and foliate interlace and within borders of foliate scrollwork, the edges of the lid with a series of cartouches containing inscriptions, interspersed by quatrefoil motifs, the inside of the lid with gilt foliate cartouche on a black ground within a foliate border, the base of the box with a further foliate cartouche within a foliate border, on a brown ground
29.8 x 18.6 x 11.5 cm.
29.8 x 18.6 x 11.5 cm.
Footnotes
Inscriptions: couplets from a ghazal of Hafiz.
Some examples of lacquered boxes with similar decoration are in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection (see Nasser D. Khalili, B. W. Robinson and T. Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part II, London, 1997, pp. 186-189, cat. 409, 410, 411, p. 198, cat. 421, and pp. 204-5, cat. 426). For a similar Qajar lacquer box sold in these rooms, see Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 26 October 2020, lot 79.
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