Two Qajar enameled gold ghilian cups, 19th century

formed of hookah sections with added base plates, one with four vignettes of elegant women, surrounded by bouquets of flowers and birds and preening ducks; the other enameled with four pairs of elegantly and colorfully dressed young women, one a la chinoise with pipe, all between fruiting and flowering trees in shaded and partly translucent colors, the base rim set with turquoises, both counter-enameled in opaque blue

the first with small areas of touching up- background of one vignette and some leaves; the second with a few leaves and flowers touched up
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