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Iskander on horseback

MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1610 AD

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Iskander on horseback
Mughal India, circa 1610 AD
Ink and wash on paper, with the hero seated on a white horse watching a dragon eating an ox, mounted, framed and glazed
Miniature 8¼ x 4¾in. (21 x 12cm.)

Lot Essay

Many leaves from this manuscript are in the Chester Beatty Library (MS17) (Leach, L.: Mughal and other Indian paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, Vol. II, London, 1995, pp. 564-7)
One is illustrated in the Binney, E.: Indian Miniature Painting from the collection of Edwin Binney III, exhibition catalogue, Portland, Oregon, 1973-4, p. 46.

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