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THREE FOLIOS FROM THE ARDESHIR ALBUM The following three folios come from the so-called 'Ardeshir Album' probably assembled during the reign of Muhammad Shah (1719-1748). The album was dispersed at auction at Sotheby's on 26th of March 1973. A number of the paintings in that album showed signs of having been taken from other albums before being remounted as they are now. The most important of the paintings date from the Shah Jahan period (1628-58). In their discussion of the Windsor Padshahnama, Beach and Koch describe the borders of the Ardeshir album as the closest equivalent to those on that famous manuscript (Beach and Koch, King of the World, exhibition catalogue, London, 1997, fig.25, p.128). Another manuscript with very similar borders is a half Qur'an which sold in these Rooms, 8 April 2008, lot 275. For a further folio from the Ardeshir album see lot 35 from the collection benefitting Oxford University offered before this sale. PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK

THE EMPEROR TIMUR

MUGHAL INDIA, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

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THE EMPEROR TIMUR
MUGHAL INDIA, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the Emperor Timur is depicted sitting cross-legged on a hexagonal gold throne wearing green and orange robes and large plumed turban wound around a pink cap, in his right hand he holds up a jewelled crown, a rocky landscape in the distance, the throne with later attribution to the artist Balchand, laid down between gold illuminated pink and blue borders and polychrome rules, the reverse with a nasta'liq quatrain copied on marbled paper, gold foliate illumination around, lower corner signed Katibuhu al-muthnib 'Abd al-Rashid, laid down between minor gold and gold-illuminated borders on wide margins with gold floral lattice, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 6¾ x 4¼in. (17.2 x 10.8cm.); calligraphy 6½ x 3¼in. (16.4 x 8.8cm.)

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Property of a Gentleman, sold Sotheby's, London, 26 March 1973, lot 1

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This portrait of Timur, the dynastic ancestor of the Mughal Emperors, appears in several paintings. The present painting depicts Timur handing down his crown and therefore the legitimacy of his imperial legacy to his Mughal successors. An earlier depiction of Timur in this same pose appears in a painting signed by Govardhan dated to circa 1630 and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, (inv. IM.8-1925, Amina Okada, Imperial Mughal Painters, Paris, 1992, no. 30, p. 31).

MUGHAL INDIA, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

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