Arts of the Islamic World, including Fine Carpets and Textiles

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Lot 175
  • 175

A QAJAR REVERSE-GLASS PAINTING OF A MOTHER AND CHILD, PERSIA, circa 1800

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

glass, painted in reverse, rectangular portrait in a wooden frame with a gilt floral motif on a coloured ground, with mirrored glass chevrons and outer lobed wood frame, the central image of a mother and child seated in an interior 

Catalogue Note

For other related reverse-glass paintings see Diba and Ekhtiar, no.63.  See also sold in these rooms, 30 April 1998, lots 572-574, and 13 October 1999, lots 25-29.