A Qajar lacquer papier-mache Mirror Case
Persia, Isfahan, dated AH 1272/AD 1855-56
inside cover decorated with a robed youth offering a bunch of flowers to a seated Virgin and Child in a landscape with trees in bloom, a peacock in the foreground, outer borders with verses written in elegant nasta'liq in white, rather crackled, outer covers sprinkled with gold, mirror intact, edges worn
270 x 175 mm.