AN ILLUMINATED FIRMAN FROM THE REIGN OF MUHAMMAD SHAH QAJAR, PERSIA, DATED 1252 AH/1836 AD

Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, ten lines of nasta'liq script written in black ink on cream paper, interlinear and border illumination in colours and gold, seal impression at top surrounded by an illuminated device

This firman is addressed to "the Christian, the Consul, resident in Trabzon [Trebizond] called Flandre(?) Karir(?) Sirdini(?)" who had previously been granted the decoration of the Lion and the Sun of the 3rd Class, and the decoration of the Lion and the Sun studded with rubies of 2nd Class for his assistance to Iranian merchants and trade.