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A FINE QAJAR OCTAGONAL LACQUERED MIRROR CASE SIGNED MUHAMMAD ISMA'IL, IRAN, MID-19TH CENTURY With drop-in cover, the fine decoration on each side arranged in three registers separated by tendrils, most scenes depicting an Armenian priest wearing a typical conical mitre and surrounded by various figures, including nuns, the front panel with a banquet scene in the centre, bordered above and below by a scene before a church and a gathering in a garden, the back panel with a central scene depicting an elderly man reclining on a lady's lap and watched by a crowd of people, various figures around tables in landscapes above and below, the cover's reverse with a single scene depicting a mounted man arriving at a church and welcomed by a maiden, a priest, a nun and a congregation, probably Shaykh San'an arriving in the Land of the Greeks, each scene bordered with floral arabesques and scrolls, the front panel signed in two cartouches at top and bottom, the sides with calligraphic cartouches in white nasta'liq script on black ground, cracquelures, chips and flakes, otherwise in fair condition 7 5/8in. (19.5cm.) across