Lot 151
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A MUSICIAN PLAYING THE TAMPURA
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A MUSICIAN PLAYING THE RABAAB

PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, POSSIBLY AWADH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A MUSICIAN PLAYING THE RABAAB
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, POSSIBLY AWADH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a figure with long moustache sits with one raised knee playing the stringed instrument, with large green bolster cushion behind him, on pink ground, painting framed by bands of nasta'liq script in white clouds on green ground, verso with 4ll. of black nasta'liq script on blue ground
Painting 6¼x 9¾in. (15.7 x 24.8cm.)
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Lot Essay

The inscription above and below this 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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