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Lot 14

A portrait of a princely official, perhaps Husain 'Ali Khan Mu'ayyir al-Mamalik, an official of Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar, standing in an interior
Qajar Persia, studio of Abu'l Hassan Ghaffari, circa 1860

21 April 2015, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A portrait of a princely official, perhaps Husain 'Ali Khan Mu'ayyir al-Mamalik, an official of Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar, standing in an interior
Qajar Persia, studio of Abu'l Hassan Ghaffari, circa 1860

gouache and gold on paper laid down on card
360 x 240 mm.

Footnotes

The subject is possibly Husain 'Ali Khan, who was Treasurer and Head of the Royal Household during the first half of Nasr al-Din Shah, as well as 'Assayer of the Realm' (Mu'ayyir al-Mamalik). A portrait dated AH 1270/AD 1853-54 is in the Khalili Collection (see S. Vernoit, Occidentalism: Islamic Art in the 19th Century, London 1997, p. 119, no. 67; also illustrated in J. Raby, Qajar Portraits, London 1999, pp. 60-61, no. 121.

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