ABADEH, QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY

In the 19th century the art of wood-carving in Iran was largely confined to the village of Abadeh, where pearwood was used and the only tool employed was a penknife (Vernoit, S., Occidentalism in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection, vol.XXIII, Oxford, 1997, no.35, pp. 69).