#Qajar

[dumbbitchhour]

Qajar, Prince Holding a Falcon, c. 1820 x

[tenthmuseondine]

Qajar Arianne Martell update! the outline is done, time to colour and render — very exited to render the fabrics and jewellery!!

Here are some of my direct references:

1. A Court Musician Playing the Kemanche

2. A Lady Playing a Stringed Instrument

3. A Qajar Portrait of a Harem Girl

4. A Qajar polychrome enamelled and pearl necklace , 19th century (Sotheby’s).

5. A Pair of Qajar Enamelled Earrings, 19th century (Sotheby’s).

[west150]

Qajati Art/ Hunting scene and Qajari princess

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Painting of a Seated Woman.

Place of origin: Iran

Date: late 18th century

Dynasty/Period: Qajar Period

Medium: Oil on canvas

[lotussed]

Sisters, Qajar, lotussed edit, source: Christie's

[moonlitattic]

A dancer of the Qajar court suddenly awakens as a spirit, with no memories of who or what killed her. She meets with an ex-soldier who is the only one who can see her, and they both realize that their goals (One who wants to know the events up to her death, another who is trying to search for his brother, labeled as Missing in Action), might have a lot more in common than they first thought. . . .

[dontswallow]

[zorbarsglogaboungcurture]

me and my wife

Amorous Couple Painting, Oil on canvas, Iran, Early 19th century, Qajar Dynasty

[lolaavarbehroz]

[dumbbitchhour]

Qajar, Dagger with Sheath, 18th-19th c. x

[estera-shirin]

Women seated around korsi, Iran, 1880-1920 CE

This photo was taken by Antoin Sevruguin. One curator writes: "The women are photographed in what seems like an andaruni or private room. The one in the centre - in more elaborate clothing and lounging on a mukhaddara or a rolled up mattress - is supporting her head on her left palm, leaning against the frame of the window. The other woman, sitting on the left, is wearing a simple black chador and white maghna'a or headscarf and hold her arm to her chest. The two women are positioned diagonally around a Kursi on top of which a mirror is facing the woman on the right. A third and smaller figure, with her face turned away from the camera, appears on the far right side the image, holding the neck of a ghalyan or shaisha. The woman in the centre of the image, though having the mirror in front of her, is looking away from the mirror and into the distance. The rigid pose of the central figure and the careful positioning of her hands in opposite directions signals the artificiality of the setting. The diverted gazes of the two women produce the illusion of the photographer intruding upon an intimate space, the presence of whom remains unnoted by the attendants. The photo is a close relative of another (43.10) in the archives that shows the same three women, this time gathered around the Kursi with one directly engaging the gaze of the camera." [Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Curatorial Research Assistant]

Here is the related image:

[pomegranatepixie]

Hey loves! Persian girl thinking about regrowing her unibrow here.

The whole idea of hair removal (women only ofc 🙄) is a huge thing in the Middle East and has frankly made us so uncomfortable with our own ethnic features. Like I genuinely cannot remember how I look with my natural eyebrows bc of the lovely school kids who bullied me into waxing and threading (pretty fucking painful btw) at the age of 9 :)

Anyway would love to know y’all’s opinions on this. Is it ‘socially acceptable’ for women to have unibrows/facial hair in general? How is it viewed in your culture?

[dayangaytransman]

Transphobes look at Nasser al-Din Shah’s daughter and say: This is a boy!

Keep in mind that not everyone has American genetics 😒

[west150]

Qajari painting/ Museum of Islamic Arts/ Tehran

[victoriansword]

Conservative Restoration of a Qajar Era Iranian Sabre

[khatere]

کوهنوردی زنان قاجاری با قلیان

Qajari women hiking with their Shisha