19th Jun, 2025 12:00

Arts of India and the Islamic Lands

 
  Lot 99
 

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THREE LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ BOOK BINDINGS WITH GOL O BOLBOL MOTIF
Qajar Iran, second half 19th century

THREE LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ BOOK BINDINGS WITH GOL O BOLBOL MOTIF
Qajar Iran, second half 19th century

Each of rectangular shape, painted in polychromes, gilt, and lacquered, comprising two book covers decorated on both sides with floral triumphs including large roses, daisies, carnations, hyacinths and irises, livened by birds perched on the flowers' stems, and moths flying around, encased within golden vegetal bands and rules; and a larger single cover with the typical Qajar topos of the rose and nightingale (gol o bolbol), signed at the top Raqam-e Amin Zar..., encased within an illuminated decorative band of stylised lotus flower and foliage scrolls on black, the reverse plain.

Each smaller cover 17.4cm x 10.5cm

The largest cover 25cm x 15.5cm

Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, London, 21 October 2016, part of lot 226.

Sold for £590


 

THREE LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ BOOK BINDINGS WITH GOL O BOLBOL MOTIF
Qajar Iran, second half 19th century

Each of rectangular shape, painted in polychromes, gilt, and lacquered, comprising two book covers decorated on both sides with floral triumphs including large roses, daisies, carnations, hyacinths and irises, livened by birds perched on the flowers' stems, and moths flying around, encased within golden vegetal bands and rules; and a larger single cover with the typical Qajar topos of the rose and nightingale (gol o bolbol), signed at the top Raqam-e Amin Zar..., encased within an illuminated decorative band of stylised lotus flower and foliage scrolls on black, the reverse plain.

Each smaller cover 17.4cm x 10.5cm

The largest cover 25cm x 15.5cm

Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, London, 21 October 2016, part of lot 226.

Auction: Arts of India and the Islamic Lands, 19th Jun, 2025

Our specialist auction Arts of India and the Islamic Lands is now online for you to browse, peruse and fall in love with your next antique. 

Among the highlights, this sale vaunts a remarkable selection of Rajput Schools paintings and an illustrated loose folio from a Timurid Haft Paykar series, all part of a private Canadian collection; several gem-studded Indian necklaces, treasured heirlooms of a local family; a notable group of Islamic manuscripts, including a geomantic tome attributed to the Nubian alchemist Dhul-Nun al-Misri; and several lots of Persian Qajar lacquer belonging to the heir of a British diplomatic family in office under Sir Denis Wright in Tehran between 1971 - 1973. 

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