Pen Box with Flowers and Birds in Grisaille Technique
Fathallah Shirazi
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format. The top and sides are similarly decorated with birds perching in flowering branches, painted in black on an off-white background. On the base a vine is painted in gold on an off-white background.
Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard
Qajar period