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The top of the lid and the sides of the casket are decorated with panels of flowers and birds on an imitation-tortoiseshell ground. The sides of the lid have massed flowers on a dark-green ground. All the panels are framed by areas of gold illumination on a red or black ground. The flat surface on the inside of the lid has a hunting scene in a European landscape, possibly figuring the first Qajar ruler, Aqa Muhammad Khan, who declared himself shah in 1796. The panels surrounding the painting, which appear to imitate Indian enamelled or encrusted work, may be an allusion to the Peacock Throne, believed to have been among the spoils brought back to Iran from Nadir Shah's sack of the Mughal treasury in Delhi in 1739. The inside of the body of the casket is plain black and the base has floral scrollwork in red and green on a gold ground.
The Khalili Collections
London
Title
Casket
Date
1211 AH (1796–1797)
Medium
papier-maché body, with hinged lid & silver fittings
Accession number
914
Work type
Sculpture
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