Persian Long Gun

[Oliver Pinchot]

This is one longarm which can definitely be attributed to a Persian craftsman, due to the marquetry work featured prominently on the stock. In Persian, this is known as Khatam kari, after the city of Khatam in the Yazd region. It is not a particularly durable form of embellishment, so it's a pleasant surprise to find an example with so much of the marquetry work intact. A rare and handsome example.