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of practices of vice, competition and play that were facilitated by these highly aestheticized gambling games. ... album. While some of these images are signed or can be attributed stylistically to an artist, the calligraphy and the page compositions are

Amongst the five suites of a deck, the cards dedicated to the image of the ‘sarbaz’ or solider were adorned with figures inspired by the contemporary recruits of the Qajar army. ... of practices of vice, competition and play that were facilitated by

of practices of vice, competition and play that were facilitated by these highly aestheticized gambling games. ... Among the artists whose works will be a part of the exhibition, curated by Veronica Shimanovskaya are: Shoja Azari, Pouya Afshar, Maryam