Antique Persian Iznik Qajar Style Ceramic Yellow Pottery Tile Loving Couple B C5

Antique Persian Iznik Qajar style green ceramic pottery tile loving couple C5. Item features original crackle glazed finish, heavy ceramic potter...

Antique Persian Iznik Qajar Style Ceramic Pottery Tile Blue and Green Man and Woman Kissing C2. Original crackle glazed finish, heavy ceramic pot...

A rare large 19th century Persian Qajar pottery Islamic tile. In a large scale painted with a depiction of a Persian prince within a shaped cartouche flanked by scrolling foliage and vines. An excellent decorative wall piece for collectors of ceramic history. Qajar era (1785–1925) The Qajar era was a time of struggle to maintain Persian tradition and identity while embracing innovation and modernity. The rarely explored field of Qajar ceramics...

Antique 19th Century Indian Kalighat painting of the God Krishna worshipping his divine consort Radha. Painted in Calcutta, Bengal, India by a Bengali patua, with natural mineral pigment paints on paper. Signed illegibly in pencil, lower right. Origins of Kalighat painting written by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England: According to legend, Lord Shiva, the god of dance and destruction, was deep in meditation on Mount Kailash when he received news of the death of his consort, Sati, an avatar (or human manifestation) of the goddess Kali. He wandered for days with her body draped across his shoulders and his inconsolable grief threatened to ruin the earth. Lord Vishnu, the Preserver, was called upon to intervene. To relieve Shiva's burden, he shattered Sati's body into 51 pieces. The little toe of Sati's right foot was said to have fallen at the site of the Hooghly River...