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Lot Essay
A miniature of a noblewoman, very close in size and format, and on an album page of identical proportions, formerly of the collection of Jean Pozzi and reproduced in E. Blochet, Miniatures Persanes et Indo-persanes, Paris, 1928, pl.46, no.35, and also by Marie-Christine David and Jean Soustiel, Miniatures orientales de l'Inde 3, Paris, 1983, no.18, p.29.
A further miniature of the same size which follows the same scheme, (in this case mounted on a Late Shah Jahan Album page), with a single haloed princely figure, here Shah Jahan, holding a jewelled turban ornament, standing in profile and against a turquoise sky, and between two plants, was formerly in the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection and now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Pratapaditya Pal, Indian Painting, Los Angeles, 1993, no.77, pp.274-77). (Pal, op cit., p.275; Stuart Carey Welch, The Art of Mughal India: Paintings and Precious Objects Exh. cat., New York, 1963, no.43; and [75]).
A further miniature of the same size which follows the same scheme, (in this case mounted on a Late Shah Jahan Album page), with a single haloed princely figure, here Shah Jahan, holding a jewelled turban ornament, standing in profile and against a turquoise sky, and between two plants, was formerly in the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection and now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Pratapaditya Pal, Indian Painting, Los Angeles, 1993, no.77, pp.274-77). (Pal, op cit., p.275; Stuart Carey Welch, The Art of Mughal India: Paintings and Precious Objects Exh. cat., New York, 1963, no.43; and [75]).