POSSIBLY HYDERABAD OR NORTH DECCAN, LATE 18TH/ EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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TWO DECCANI PORTRAITS WITH OTTOMAN BORDERS
POSSIBLY HYDERABAD OR NORTH DECCAN, LATE 18TH/ EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments on paper, the first depicting a Hindu ruler, probably Maratha, smoking a huqqa accompanied by two attendants, the second depicting a Deccani nobleman carrying a sword, the paintings laid down on an album page with composite borders comprising panels with Ottoman calligraphy

Provenance

Marie de Rohan-Chabot, princesse Lucien Murat (1876-1951), thence by descent to present owner

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Lot Essay

Inscriptions in the upper border of the portrait of the Deccani nobleman comprise praise to God and invocations of blessings on Muhammad and ‘Ali, signed by Al-Sayyid al-Hafiz ‘Ali al-Ramzi (Remzi), the teacher at the Uç Şerifeli (Mosque in Edirne), pupil of ’Izzati (Izzeti) Efendi, dated 1252 (1836-7). In the left and right borders is part of a text in Ottoman Turkish by the Idris Ghalib (Galib) Efendi whose ijazah is on another leaf, and is dated 1258 (1842-3). In the lower border is an Arabic saying.

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