A MUSICIAN PLAYING THE TAMPURA

PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, POSSIBLY AWADH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A MUSICIAN PLAYING THE TAMPURA
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, POSSIBLY AWADH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a figure with long moustache, sits with one raised knee playing the sitar, with large green baluster cushion behind him, on pink ground, miniature framed by bands of nasta'liq in white clouds on green ground, verso with 4ll. of nasta'liq on blue ground
Miniature 6¼ x 9¾in. (15.7 x 24.8cm.)

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Lot Essay

The inscription above and below this miniature reads, ahang-e delgosha az vay resad be-gush , gar dast-e motrebane keshi bar sar-e rabab, 'A delightful song reaches the ear from it if you pass a musicianly hand over the rabab'.

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