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Peter Petrou
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MIRZA BABA (1789-1810)
A Qajar Still Life Painting
( Persia
1800 to 1850
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Medium
Oil on Canvas
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Dimensions
77.00cm wide
91.00cm high
(30.31 inches wide 35.83 inches high)
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Literature:
Royal Persian Paintings, The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925
Diba and Ekhtar 1998 p.214-215
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Description / Expertise
The influence of European ‘Still Life’ is seen in this charming naive painting showing luscious fruit piled high in porcelain bowls on a rich brocaded tablecloth against an architectural framework. This subject was one that was often used to decorate garden pavilions such as the Fin garden pavilion at Kashan and typically, traces of plaster on the reverse of the canvas show that this painting is likely to have been made for this purpose.
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