Lot Essay
For another version of this scene in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv.no. I.S. 140-1955) see Archer, 1973, Kangra 56, Vol.I, p.304, Vol.II, p.224.
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KANGRA, PUNJAB HILLS, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1800-10
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THE THIEVING CAT
KANGRA, PUNJAB HILLS, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1800-10
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a lady chases a cat holding a parrot in its mouth across a terrace, within narrow red and dark blue borders comprising scrolling foliate gold motifs, with gold-speckled cream margins
Painting 7 5/8 x 5in. (19.5 x 12.5cm.); folio 7 7/8 x 5 ¾in. (20 x 14.5cm.)
KANGRA, PUNJAB HILLS, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1800-10
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a lady chases a cat holding a parrot in its mouth across a terrace, within narrow red and dark blue borders comprising scrolling foliate gold motifs, with gold-speckled cream margins
Painting 7 5/8 x 5in. (19.5 x 12.5cm.); folio 7 7/8 x 5 ¾in. (20 x 14.5cm.)
Provenance
With Joseph Soustiel, Paris, 1966.
Literature
Miniatures Indiennes, Musée d’ethnographie, Neuchâtel, 1980, no.9
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