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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Middle Eastern: Textiles: Pre 1900: Item # 1468591

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Galerie Hafner
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Galerie Hafner
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The rectangular pouch made of different Persian silk fabrics with cotton lining and two buttons. The kohl etui worked of ruby velvet with raised embroidery in couched metal lamellae, the sides are sewn together. Women's pouches in Qajar Persia were used for different purposes as storing kohl, veil, prayer stone, comb, quran etc. Please visit www.qajarwomen.org. Condition: traces of usage and age, few thin areas, lining with tiny holes. Dimension c.: 8.7 x 8.5 cm, 13 x 6.5 cm.