A PAIR OF QAJAR MOULDED POLYCHROME POTTERY TILES, PERSIA, 19TH CENTURY |

moulded and painted in underglaze cobalt blue, turquoise and pink, each depicting a hunter riding a horse among floral stems with buildings in the distance, below a border of birds among meandering flowers, set in black wooden frame

In overall good condition, each intact, set in a wooden frame with hooks to reverse for hanging, some abrasion to glaze, hairline craquelure to glaze, some pitting as consistent with firing, as viewed.
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A similar tile with a prince on horseback in now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, inv.no.83.1.67.