Pen Box with Flowers and Birds in Grisaille Technique
Fathallah Shirazi
1880–1881
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard
- Dimensions
- 3.7 × 3.8 × 22.6 cm (1 7/16 × 1 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- Artists' tools
About
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format. In black on an off-white ground, the top and sides are painted with birds and flying insects amid plants that sprout from a ground line. The plants include rose, prunus, and hyacinth.
