A SIKH COUPLE

TANJORE SCHOOL, SOUTH INDIA, CIRCA 1805

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A SIKH COUPLE
TANJORE SCHOOL, SOUTH INDIA, CIRCA 1805
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicting a Sikh man in black carrying a large tulwar and with a black turban with a chakram, possibly a Nihangi together with his female companion dressed in a gold-embroidered floral sari, behind them white stone buildings with a wide blue horizon, inscription on the mount in a 19th century hand, mounted on card
Folio 16 x 11¼in. (40.5 x 28.5cm.)

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Inscription: An incomplete inscription in a 19th Century hand on the lower part of the margin reads, 'Sikko La

A folio of the same size also illustrating a Sikh couple which is probably from the same workshop is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, (inv. AL.9254:25, Mildred Archer, Company Paintings, Indian Paintings of the British period, London, 1992, p.58).

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