A MONUMENTAL SAFAVID-REVIVAL LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PANEL: A CONGREGATION OF WISE MEN REACHING THE CITY
Qajar Iran, 19th century

Of rectangular shape, the horizontal composition polychrome-painted and lacquered, portraying consecutive scenes of a group of wise men entering a city palace in front of a large fountain, all dressed in classical Safavid fashion with long overcoats and multi-folded turbans, greeted and showed around by a local pir, the architecture and the peach blossom-inspired trees influenced by the Timurid painter Behzad's and early Safavid school paintings, the scene set within a floriated dark blue border filled with split palmettes and white arabesques, signed 'Amal-e Rouhani (?)' on the lower right, mounted, glazed and framed, 62cm x 84.5cm including the frame.

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