A HUNTING SCENE

PROBABLY AWADH, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A HUNTING SCENE
PROBABLY AWADH, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Watercolour, ink and pencil on paper heightened with gold, a hunter on horseback cradling a cheetah under his arms, a herd of deers run from them, on gold-speckled cream card, mounted
Miniature 5 7/8 x 9 1/8in. (15 x 23.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

This miniature is a late Mughal essay combining a number of archaic styles. Because the Faizabad and Lucknow Nawab Wazirs were in fact originally a Nishapuri family, similar nostalgic glances back to 17th century Iran are found of works of a similar period, for instance those of the large Clive Album. With this in mind, the creatures and some of the vegetation can be thus paralleled in what is otherwise a Mughal landscape.

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