MUGHAL INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

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A FIGHT BETWEEN A MAHOUT AND A CAVALIER
MUGHAL INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, an elephant charges at a man on horseback who brandishes a lance, mounted on an album page with gold floral border and gold-sprinkled margins, verso with floral design
Painting 4¾ x 8¼in. (12 x 21cm.); folio 11 x 16 5/8in. (28 x 42.4cm.)

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Formerly in the collection of Howard Hodgkin

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Lot Essay

This folio comes from an album probably produced in Awadh around 1770-1780, typified by the brightly coloured floral designs on the verso. Very similar floral illumination appears on the margins of an album leaf in the Nasli and Alice Heermaneck Collection, attributed to Awadh and dateable to 1775-80. Similar borders were produced for the album made for Colonel Antoine Polier who was the engineer and architect for the Nawab of Awadh (Joseph M.Dye III, The Arts of India, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2001, no.97, p.265).

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