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A SIKH RAJA, PROBABLY MAHARAJA GULAB SINGH OF JAMMU, AND ATTENDANTS
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A SIKH RAJA, PROBABLY MAHARAJA GULAB SINGH OF JAMMU, AND ATTENDANTS

SIKH, CIRCA 1850

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A SIKH RAJA, PROBABLY MAHARAJA GULAB SINGH OF JAMMU, AND ATTENDANTS
SIKH, CIRCA 1850
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the central raja dressed in yellow surrounded by attendants, sitting on a terrace beneath a purple awning, a servant stands behind fanning him, to the bottom left three further warriors, laid down on pink card between a minor dark border with scrolling flowering vine, mounted, framed and glazed
Miniature 7½ x 9¾in. (19 x 24.7cm.); folio 9 5/8 x 11 7/8in. (24.5 x 30.2cm.)
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Lot Essay

The central figure bears a strong resemblance to a portrait of a raja seated on a European chair in the Victoria and Albert Museum (W. G. Archer, Portraits of the Sikhs, London, 1966, no.24, p.146 and pl.51. In his commentary on that painting Archer suggests that it is a very young portrait of Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu (1792-1857), probably executed when the sitter was already somewhat older.

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