A Qajar underglaze-painted moulded pottery tile depicting a man wearing the national dress of the Caucasus, Persia, circa 1880

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A Qajar underglaze-painted moulded pottery tile depicting a man wearing the national dress of the Caucasus, Persia, circa 1880

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A Qajar underglaze-painted moulded pottery tile depicting a man wearing the national dress of the Caucasus
Persia, circa 1880
Of rectangular form, moulded and decorated in polychrome with a central medallion containing a portrait of a man in the national dress of the Caucasus, gazyr pouches on his chest, a pistol in his belt and a kindjal in his left hand, all surrounded by floral sprays and vegetal decoration
40.5 x 29 cm.

Inscriptions: '... Witson (or Whitson)'.

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1800 - 1850
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