DELHI OR JAIPUR, CIRCA 1800

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TWO MUGHAL DOUBLE SIDED MINIATURES
DELHI OR JAIPUR, CIRCA 1800
Gouache on card laid down on wood, two miniatures, one a bathing scene with dense crowds of men swimming or spectating around a central pool, the foreground with men, some on elephant and horse-back approaching, the other depicting a river with several ships, crossed mid-composition by a bridge linking two palaces, with several bathers and elephants in the foreground and in the bottom right corner a mounted man in European dress confronting a group of soilders, both with original circular holes to the top, versos lacquered panels in shades of green, manganese, orange and gold, with central floral spray and two peacocks, lacquer worn, both sides mounted and glazed, framed
Miniatures 12 3/8 x 8 3/8in. (31.4 x 21.3cm.) (2)

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拍品专文

The lacquer panels that back these miniatures relate, in their central design which features a vase of flowers flanked by two birds within a cusped area, to a pair of book covers in the Khalili collection (see Nasser D.Khalili, B.W.Robinson and Tim Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, Part One, London, 1996, no. 206, accession no. LAQ486, p. 253) which are attributed to Kashmir, 18th or 19th century.