Persia’s fashion-obsessed Fath ’Ali Shah — and a few of his 250 sons | Christie's

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A group portrait of 24 of the 19th-century ruler’s sons and grandsons, which once adorned a Qajar royal palace, debuts at auction on 1 April. Specialists Sara Plumbly and Behnaz Atighi Moghaddam discuss the opulent era from which it emerged