BIKANER, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1675-1700

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BIKANER, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1675-1700
Line drawing with touches of pink on paper, depicting two Persian-style scenes, on the left a group of ascetics in a variey of attitudes sit in a landscape with various wild animals, on the right a seated prince with a feather in his turban helps balance a stand with a goat perched on top, a monkey on his back, with a companion playing a tambour close by, mounted on an album page
Miniature 9 x 11 3/8in. (22.6 x 29.1cm.)

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拍品专文

The drawing and another identical drawing, together with one in the British Museum, after Dust Muhammad's 'Haftvad and the Worm' (the original sold at Sotheby's 29 & 30 May 1992 lot 291) have all been attributed by Robert Skelton to Bikaner artists working in the late 17th century, trained in the Mughal style and with access to cartoons of earlier works (see Skelton, 'Iranian Artists in the Service of Humayun' in Humayun's Garden: Party Princes of the House of Timur & Early Mughal Painting, Sheila Canby (ed..), Marg, Bombay, 1994. This drawing is mounted on a typical Bikaner album page.