Price: 2.3 – 2.6 BT
Artist: A prominent masters of the Qajar
Title: Muraqqa-i Asnaf
Date: Late Qajar Era
Medium: 18 watercolor paintings
Dimensions: 25 × 17 cm
Description: The present album, comprising eighteen exquisite folios adorned with watercolour paintings depicting various professions of the Qajar period, stands as a remarkable example of this genre. Beyond its considerable aesthetic merit, this work holds immense cultural and ethnographic significance, offering valuable insights into the social fabric of nineteenth-century Iran. The illustrations display a rich and varied palette of luminous watercolours. After the meticulous processes of trimming and mounting, the eighteen paintings were bound in an exceptionally luxurious cover featuring gold tooling over a lacquered substrate—a technique reminiscent of the masterpieces created by artists such as Mirza ‹Abd al-Wahhab, the renowned court illuminator (mudhahhib-bāshi).