The House Order Timsal Humajum, (Temt al e Homayoon), The...
The House Order Timsal Humajum, (Temt al e Homayoon), The Order of the Royal Portrait, Persia.
Unselected miniature portrait of the shah Nasr-ed-Din (1830-1898), chest image, phase, large mustaches, black-and-white uniform, black hat with white egress.
Gouache on paper. Mounted under glass with a facade, faceted edge in the making of silver on the outside.
Rich, originally brilliantly mounted on the back gilded silver, around the portrait three rings, below the bow and leaf ranks. Above the portrait, the cairns of a large stone in the middle, crowned by the Persian imperial crown, attached by a scharner. On the back of the crown a bottom of the split building of gilt silver.