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A MEETING IN A PAVILION
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A MEETING IN A PAVILION

MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY

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A MEETING IN A PAVILION
Mughal India, late 16th century
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a group of men visiting a sheikh in a pavilion with attendants bringing refreshments, inscribed on the mount in black nasta'liq the work of Nader Zaman, mounted on card with blue and gold margins, slight flaking, erased text above and below, the reverse with original nasta'liq text
Miniature 8 x 5¼in. (20.3 x 13.3cm.)
Provenance
With Maggs, London, 1934
R.E. Lewis, 1963
Literature
Indian Miniatures from West Coast Private Collections, San Francisco, 1964, no.3.
Maggs Bros., London, catalogue, 1934, no.600.
Exhibited
Indian Miniatures from West Coast Private Collections, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, 29 May -16 July 1964
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Lot Essay

The text on the reverse refers to the Caliph al-Ma'mun (r.813-833 AD).
Nader Zaman, also called Abu'l Hasan, to whom the work is attributed in the margin, was a favourite painter of Jahangir.

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