Qajar Period Signed Persian Bowl with Blue, Green and Brown Hand-painted Decoration open house sign helped get some more light

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much weathered carved head suggests it was once attached to a large caved figure--I presume representing Jesus himself

Oil on canvas nailed to a thick wooden stretcher

I don't know the maker of this small vintage tiger puzzle

or hu tou mao

Qajar Period Signed Persian Bowl with Blue, Green and Brown Hand-painted Decoration open house sign helped get some more lightI find the white and blues and greens of Persian pottery just amazing. And with this bowl, 18th 19th century I believe, it is the interior I love the most, simple and perfect, with the green forms looking like buds, and also a bit like figures holding hands in a circle around the full bloom! With three hand painted vignettes of flowers and leaves and branches around the exterior, with a small gap of white between each. Lovely. And I would not be at