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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTOR
FOLIO FROM A MUGHAL ALBUM
MIR JUMLA MU'AZZAM KHAN
MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1660
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MIR JUMLA MU'AZZAM KHAN
MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1660
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the Mughal official Mir Jumla wears white robes and carries an elegant jade-hilted dagger, with flowering plants below, on a wide green background, set within three gold illuminated borders with scrolling vine on polychrome ground, the portrait identified on the upper margin in black nasta'liq, reverse with a Persian quatrain in nasta'liq in white clouds reserved against gold ground, signed katabahu gholam-e rasul omidvar-e fazl o karam, mounted with old sale label
Painting 5 7/8 x 3in. (15 x 7.6cm.); folio 12 x 8¼in. (30.3 x 20.9cm.)
MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1660
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the Mughal official Mir Jumla wears white robes and carries an elegant jade-hilted dagger, with flowering plants below, on a wide green background, set within three gold illuminated borders with scrolling vine on polychrome ground, the portrait identified on the upper margin in black nasta'liq, reverse with a Persian quatrain in nasta'liq in white clouds reserved against gold ground, signed katabahu gholam-e rasul omidvar-e fazl o karam, mounted with old sale label
Painting 5 7/8 x 3in. (15 x 7.6cm.); folio 12 x 8¼in. (30.3 x 20.9cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale in these Rooms, 28 November 1983, lot 127
Brought to you by
Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse