#Qajar

[massiveluxuryoverdose]

"Globe of Jewels"

It was made around 1869 by order of Nassereddin Shah. Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831 – 1896).

It made of 34kg of solid gold and more than 51,000 diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires.

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Painting of a Seated Woman.

Place of origin: Iran

Date: late 18th century

Dynasty/Period: Qajar Period

Medium: Oil on canvas

[west150]

Qajati Art/ Hunting scene and Qajari princess

[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]

[persianmeow]

[clemencepoles]

Original and reproduction of women’s clothing in Iran – from different regions and historical eras. The images are taken from the book Negar-e Zan, published in Tehran in 1973 by the International Women’s Club of Iran. [via shahrefarang.com]

[zorbarsglogaboungcurture]

me and my wife

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

[lolaavarbehroz]

[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

[dumbbitchhour]

Qajar, Dancer, 19th c. x

[lotussed]

A Reclining Beauty, Qajar, detail

[moonlitattic]

Late autumn 2023 and early spring 2024 art!