This lot comprises a pair of decorative hand-painted scrolls executed on supple, natural light-tan animal hide, likely goatskin or sheepskin. Each scroll is mounted onto dark-stained wooden rollers finished with turned, urn-form finials. The central figures are rendered in a style influenced by Persian miniature painting, using fine black ink outlines and translucent watercolour washes to depict traditional ethnic attire. One scroll portrays a Kurdish man in a turban, wide waist sash, and voluminous pleated trousers. The second scroll depicts a Qashqai woman in a multi-layered, patterned dress and distinctive headwear characteristic of the nomadic tribes of Southwestern Iran. Both scrolls include Perso-Arabic calligraphic inscriptions. The upper inscriptions identify the subjects as Mardan-e Kord (Kurdish Man/Men) and Zanan-e Qashqai (Qashqai Woman/Women). A lower inscription on both pieces reads Chereh Hassan, denoting the artist or studio mark. These pieces are characteristic of 20th-century Iranian decorative art produced for the ethnographic or souvenir market.
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