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TWO LACQUERED?PAPIER-M?CHé PEN CASES (QALAMDAN) Iran, late 19th century? Each with rounded ends and sliding tray, the top and sides of one painted with horizontal composition of birds on branches amidst wild berries or hazelnuts and lush leaves,?polychrome-painted on a black ground,?the internal tray and the underside with gold trellis and floral scrollwork on a red ground, 23cm long; and another similar one, the top with three figural roundels, the central one with Madonna and child and winged angels, the lateral two with Western-looking ladies holding a cross and a parrot, on the sides Western-inspired landscape scenes on a riverside, other cartouches filled with floral bloom, the internal tray and the underside with gold trellis and floral scrollwork on a black ground, 22.5cm? Provenance:?Acquired in 1960s – 1970s in Iran and in the UK since 1981.Notes: Islamic & Indian Art