A QAJAR POLYCHROME-ENAMELLED COPPER QALYAN CUP Iran, 19th century Of typical flaring shape, resting on a later-added circular foot, with a gently everted rim, the exterior finely embellished with polychrome-painted enamels, the decoration consisting of alternating roundels and vertical oval cartouches filled with courtly scenes of merriment, wine drinking and lady's bathing, one roundel with an elderly man, possibly Sheikh Sanan falling in love with a Christian lady, the figural cartouches set against a dark cobalt blue enamel ground and interspersed with gold-leaf stippled appliqued rosette heads with red beads, the lower band with cartouches filled with the typical Qajar gol-o-bolbol motif in polychrome enamels, the interior lined in camel brown velvet, the 20th-century copper circular lid with ring-punched flower on the top, the enamelled body inscribed by the lowest scribe Abd-al-Rahim, 7.3cm high and 9cm diam.