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In ceramics, Qajar potters, such as Ali Muhammad Isfahani, copied the colourful monumental seventeenth-century tile panels that decorated palaces in Isfahan. Many of these included elegant courtiers drinking wine in lush gardens (see for example V&amp;A 139-1891). This single tile reproduces one of these multi-tiled picnic scenes. The composition is centered on a pair of figures, a young man in seventeenth-century style costume wearing a European hat and cloak, and a young woman reclining in an elaborate robe and scarf. Before them are wine bottles and glasses, bowls of fruit are being offered to them by attendants. \nThis tile was commissioned around 1884-5, by a French composer of military music, Alfred Lemaire (1842-1907). From 1868, he was working at Tehran's <I>Dar al Funun</I> polytechnical college, training the staff to teach music; he later composed Iran's first national anthem. The tile is part of a fireplace surround (see 510, 511, 512 &amp; 522-1889). 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It is molded into flat panels and painted in colours based on minerals and metals, such as blue from cobalt, purple from manganese, black from chromium, yellow from iron or antimony, turquoise and green from copper, when dried it is covered with a transparent colourless alkaline glaze. 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Right. ' The order of the confidante of his Imperial Majesty, Monsieur Le Maire, Chief Musicmaster of the Government of Iran.' \r\n2. Left. 'The Transitory work of the master Ali Muhammad Isfahani is completed in Tehran in 1302 [1884-5].'\r\n","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Initially, translated by B.W. Robinson, 1952.","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Persian inscription in two tri-lobed cartouches centred in upper border written in <i>nast 'aliq</i> script in black within a moulded relief on end tiles. 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