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Famous names https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6393327

Qajar Book Illustrations: https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_S2014.17.4/

Qalamdans, Hermitage https://hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/08.+applied+arts/228345 Late 1600s Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Mid 1700s

Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Early 1700s. Painted scenes Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Late 1600s-early 1700s. Painted scenes Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Mid 1700s. Painted scenes Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Early 1700s. Painted woman. Signed Zaman Art works (hermitagemuseum.org) Early 1700s. Attr Muhammad Ali ibn Muhammad Zaman


Definitely use this source: https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ali-qoli-jobba-dar See: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aliarda/25368013193/in/photostream/ Notice the cloud partially blocking the sun at the left (which in the original does not exist), and also the plants at the bottom right. A bush rather than a line of shrubs behind the leg Notice the designs on the footwear.

Drawing of the Ptolemaic (?) Tazza Farnese, ca. 1430-50. Signed by the calligrapher Muhammad al-Khayyam. Folio 72, p3 n. 2 of the Diez Album A.

Background https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1920-0917-0-294?_gl=1%2ai6gzc7%2a_up%2aMQ..%2a_ga%2aNzQ3Mjk1ODk1LjE3MTEwOTc4MDA.%2a_ga_JHR77E3EZ1%2aMTcxMTA5NzgwMC4xLjAuMTcxMTA5NzgwMC4wLjAuMA..%2a_ga_08TLB9R8X1%2aMTcxMTA5NzgwMC4xLjAuMTcxMTA5NzgwMC4wLjAuMA..

Continuity https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_S2014.17.91/ Muhammad Baqir lacquer painting https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/352094 Album of many floral and animal paintings, mostly 18th-19th century Persian but some South Asian too. https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/216516?position=216516 Great penbox https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/351869?position=351869 Great Zand period penbox, Aqa Muhammad Zaman, 1780-81 https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_F1928.8/ Jabbadar & Zaman's interest in working directly off European prints did not survive long after their deaths, but stylistic aspects they pioneered- now more fully Persianized- continued under their heirs. Copies of their work in the 1700s

Into the Qajar era https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6068004?ldp_breadcrumb=back&intobjectid=6068004&from=salessummary&lid=1 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/901277 https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/351924 https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/351866?position=351866 mid 19th century penbox w/ flowers, with inscription referencing a late 18th century painter

Sources in the decorative arts

Parallels

Persian single-flower studies See: https://www.flickr.com/photos/persianpainting/16242329754

Bird and flower

Artists involved in transition