ISLAMIC, INDIAN ART & JEWELS
Lot 146:
Description
Of rectangular form, moulded and decorated in polychrome and gilt with Fath ‘Ali Shah Qajar hunting in a landscape surrounded by his retinue, an inscription-filled cartouche to his left, all within a foliate border, framed
The panel 42.7 x 29.3 cm.
Inscriptions: ‘The work of Mohammad Baqir Tavus’.
Mohammad Baqir Tavus is recorded by Karimzadeh as a lacquer painter and a master in a particular technique called layeh-chini (using a paste to create low relief). Among his few recorded works, there are two dated AH 1200 (AD 1785-6) and AH 1226 (AD 1811-12), including a book cover in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see Mohammad Ali Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol.2, London, 1990, pp. 667-8). Based on similarities with the Victoria and Albert Museum piece (dated 1226/1811-12), an unsigned panel at the Khalili Collection is also attributed to him (see Nasser D. Khalili, B. W. Robinson and Tim Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part II, London, 1997, p. 109, cat. 316).
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