A BLACK BUCK (NILGAI)
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A BLACK BUCK (NILGAI)

MUGHAL INDIA, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A BLACK BUCK (NILGAI)
MUGHAL INDIA, MID-18TH CENTURY
Gouache on paper, the black and white buck stands against a green landscape with flowers in the foreground and rocky mountains and a small town on the horizon, between minor gold rules on margins with stylised blue flowers on buff ground, verso with a calligraphic panel with 4ll. of black nasta'liq script in clouds reserved against gold, laid down between minor gold-highlighted blue border on gold-speckled buff and blue margins
Painting 8 1/8 x 5 5/8in. (20.5 x 14.1cm.); folio 11 x 8in. (28.1 x 20.4cm.)

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