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DELHI SCHOOL, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
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DELHI SCHOOL, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, one side depicting a nimbate figure on horseback, a sprawling town looming on the horizon and three putti looking through the clouds above holding jewels, a crown and a trumpet, the other side with a nimbate figure with a falcon on one arm and a katar tucked in his belt sitting on a rocky knoll in a landscape attended by a beared figure in elegant gold-embroidered robe, laid down between a border of nasta'liq calligraphy in clouds reserved against floral ground, both miniatures laid down between minor pink or blue borders with gold illumination on wide floral margins with gold highlights, one side with a later imprint of a seal of Jahangir, minor losses to folio
Largest miniature 10½ x 7 3/8in. (26.6 x 18.6cm.); folio 15¼ x 10 3/8in. (38.8 x 26.5cm.)
DELHI SCHOOL, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, one side depicting a nimbate figure on horseback, a sprawling town looming on the horizon and three putti looking through the clouds above holding jewels, a crown and a trumpet, the other side with a nimbate figure with a falcon on one arm and a katar tucked in his belt sitting on a rocky knoll in a landscape attended by a beared figure in elegant gold-embroidered robe, laid down between a border of nasta'liq calligraphy in clouds reserved against floral ground, both miniatures laid down between minor pink or blue borders with gold illumination on wide floral margins with gold highlights, one side with a later imprint of a seal of Jahangir, minor losses to folio
Largest miniature 10½ x 7 3/8in. (26.6 x 18.6cm.); folio 15¼ x 10 3/8in. (38.8 x 26.5cm.)
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