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View full screenMirror case, octagonal, elongated, papier-mâché painted polychrome with birds and flowers, lacquered: West Asia, Iran, by Ashraf, AH 1153/ CE 1740 - 1741
A.1921.1433
Ashraf, Ali, c. 1735 - 1780 (fl.), Painter
Iran, West Asia
1740 - 1741
Afshar period
Papier-mâché, Paint, Gold, Lacquer
Papier-mâché, gesso, painted polychrome and lacquered; with a nightingale and a rose in a cusped medallion and surrounded by flowers in gold against a crimson red background; in the top of the central medallion the date [AH] 1153.
Scarce, Jennifer M., Domestic culture in the Middle East : An exploration of the household interior, Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland, 1996, p. 72.