Qalamdan

Description

Pen box, case, elongated, with rounded ends, papier-mâché, painted monochrome black with dervish, hunting and pastoral scenes, laquered: West Asia, Iran, Qajar period, 19th century

Museum reference

A.1890.352

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Qalamdan, Pen box, Writing case

Production information

Iran, West Asia

Date

19th century

Style / Culture

Qajar period

Materials

Papier-mâché, Paint, Gold, Lacquer

Physical description

Papier-mâché, gesso, painted monochrome black against a light background and lacquered; the top showing a dervish embracing a woman, both standing in a landscape with trees, buildings, two deer at the bottom; the sides painted with dervishes sitting underneath trees, a hunting scene, a man herding goats, another man with an emaciated horse; the bottom painted red with flowers in gold.

Associations

Paris Exhibition of 1889