3713210 Tool kit depicting the Holy Family, c.1830 (mixed media) by Persian School, (19th century); overall: 39.5x26x6.5 cm; Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK; (add.info.: possibly Najaf ???li Surgeon\'s kit, comprising cover and drawers containing instruments. Wood, covered with papier mache, painted with watercolour, and coated with lacquer; wood drawers; metal instruments, mostly steel, some inlaid with gold; instrument hafts of bone or mother-of-pearl; wooden comb. The cover??? elaborate decoration - featuring Christian themes including the Holy Family - is clearly the work of a skilled and versatile artist familiar with foreign stylistic conventions. European subjects appear frequently in the work of Najaf ???li, an artist active in Isfahan in the 19th century. The quality of the design and scale of the work are such that the kit may well have been executed by him and have been made for an important recipient.); by Ashmolean Museum .