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Mirror Case with Hinged Shutter  wikidata:Q107663613 reasonator:Q107663613
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Mirror Case with Hinged Shutter
label QS:Len,"Mirror Case with Hinged Shutter"
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Object type lacquerware Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Mirror Case with Hinged Shutter

LAQ 42 Isfahan, Iran

dated 1274 AH (1857–8 AD)

papier-mâché case and hinged shutter, painted and varnished; silver fittings

27.8 x 16.5cm

The decoration of this mirror case combines a portrait of a contemporary personality with Frankish fantasies of the type that often appears in the work of Isma‘il, and which he seems to have derived from work produced in the circle of Najaf ‘Ali in the later years of that master’s life.

The front of the shutter shows Armenian clergy and worshippers, and the back of the case a European banquet, with grooms and horses in the foreground. At the corners are oval panels of angels in European dress offering dishes of flowers or fruit. The inner face of the shutter bears a portrait of Mirza Aqa Khan Nuri, chief minister of Nasir al-Din Shah between 1852 and 1858, possibly based on a watercolour by the well-known Qajar painter Abu’l-Hasan Ghaffari (Sani‘ al-Mulk).
Date 1858 Edit this at Wikidata
institution QS:P195,Q63160499
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Place of creation Isfahan Edit this at Wikidata
References https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/islamic-art/khalili-collection-islamic-art-mirror-case-with-hinged-shutter-laq42/ (EnglishEdit this at Wikidata
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Source Khalili Collections
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