Rare page d'un album de scènes de rue - Lot 64

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Rare page d'un album de scènes de rue - Lot 64
Rare page d'un album de scènes de rue Iran, Qajar art, circa 1850 Watercolor on paper, depicting a butcher weighing pieces of meat to serve a customer holding a saucer, two other characters, in motion, are impatient. The scene takes place in a place resembling a market in a typical architecture. 26.5 x 20.7 cm Qajar albums depicting scenes of street merchants, in a style very similar to our page, and with similar dimensions, are preserved in the British Museum (ID. 2006,0314,0.11 and 2006,0314,0.28). For a page depicting a butchery such as ours, in a Qajar album, see the sale catalog: Christies, London, 23 October 2007, lot 206.
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