Lot Essay
For a note on the Polier album, from which this folio originates, see lot 181.
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AWADH, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1765
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A PORTRAIT OF A NOBLE
AWADH, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1765
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a single nimbate figure wearing elegant gold-illuminated robes and leaning on a long khanda stands in a green landscape, laid down on wide cream borders decorated with blue flowering vine and framed by two minor borders with gold leafy vine on deep blue ground, a blank cartouche in the lower margin, backed with card, mounted
Painting 5 7/8 x 3 1/8in. (15 x 8.3cm.); folio 15½ x 11 1/8in. (39.1 x 28.4cm.)
AWADH, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1765
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a single nimbate figure wearing elegant gold-illuminated robes and leaning on a long khanda stands in a green landscape, laid down on wide cream borders decorated with blue flowering vine and framed by two minor borders with gold leafy vine on deep blue ground, a blank cartouche in the lower margin, backed with card, mounted
Painting 5 7/8 x 3 1/8in. (15 x 8.3cm.); folio 15½ x 11 1/8in. (39.1 x 28.4cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale, Sotheby's, South Asian Art, Including Property From the Dartington Hall Trust, London, 15 June 2010, lot 5
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