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Pen Box with Flowers and Birds

Pen Box with Flowers and Birds

Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format. The top and sides are decorated with a continuous frieze of flowering plants and hazelnuts with birds on a sparkling dark brown background. On the base, floral and foliate motifs are painted in gold on a black background.

Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, platy hematite particles, and lacquer on pasteboard

Qajar period

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