SULTANATE INDIA, FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY

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CANDA IN HER CHAMBER
Sultanate India, first half 16th century
Illustration to the Candayana of Da'ud, gouache heightened with gold on paper, the lady Chanda seated on a blue bed recieves a garland from a maidservant who stands before her, to the right a second maid holds a palm-leaf fan, yellow pillars with green background below, gold margin between black, red and blue rules, the reverse with lines of red and black strong thuluth verses between rules, overlaid with thin paper margins extended, slight repairs, retouching and staining, mounted
Folio 9½ x 7in. (24 x 18cm.); miniature 6¾ x 5 in. (17 x12.7cm.)

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Gazdar, Bombay, March 1966

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Lot Essay

A number of miniatures survive from this remarkable manuscript. The remaining text and a number of miniatures comprising seventy-thrtee pages are in the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai, while at least twenty-eight others are in various institutions and private collections. The catalogue entry to one of these gives further details of a number of others (Darielle Mason, Intimate Worlds, Indian Paintings from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection, Philadelphia, 2001, no.10, pp.50-1). Various attributions have been given to the original manuscript, including Delhi/Agra, Oudh and Mandu. In her introduction to three further paintings in the Khalili Collection Dr Leach is unable to place it precisely, leaving it open as "Sultanate" (Linda York Leach, Paintings from India, London, 1998, pp.11-15).

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