TWO QAJARLACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PEN CASES (QALAMDAN) Iran, 19th century Each with rounded ends and sliding tray, comprising a pen case with a later added inkwell (dawat), the top and sides painted with horizontal composition of the typicalgul-o-bulbul(rose and nightingale) motif interspersed with oval portrait medallions depicting members of the Qajar high society, all sumptuously clad with fine clothing and heavily bejewelled, one gentleman bald and wearing an Indian embroidered muslin jacket, one nasta'liqinscription in white ink at the top Ya Saheb Al-Zaman 1126 AH (?), a later addition paying tribute to the work of the 18th-century lacquer master Aqa Mohammad Zaman; the latter painted with vertical composition of oval medallions filled withgul-o-bulbul(rose and nightingale) motif; each polychrome-painted against a translucent gold sprinkled dark brown ground, the internal tray and the underside of the first pen case with gold lotus flower and rosette trellis on red ground, the latter plain on red ground, the longest 23.5cm long.