拍品專文
Ghulam Sayyid Khan was the Chief Minister of Hyderabad from 1781-1804.
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HYDERABAD, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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A PORTRAIT OF GHULAM SAYYID KHAN
HYDERABAD, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the seated figure holding a safina manuscript and prayer beads, blessed gold light emanates from a winged celestial figure above, set beneath cusped arches with arabesques on a pink balcony draped with a white textile, the margins with cusped cartouches containing a muhaqqaq identifying inscription, cartouches separated by small medallions with scrolling floral vine set between bands of strapwork, the outer margins with interlocking palmettes containing scrolling vine and with angels offering pearls above, the reverse with a portrait of a noble out riding with attendants carrying swords and wine cups, set in wide orange and blue margins, areas of flaking and repainting to the illuminated margins, mounted, framed and glazed
Recto portrait 7½ x 4¼in. (19 x 10.8cm.); verso painting 10 1/8 x 9½in. (25.5 x 24cm.); folio 16¼ x 11¾in. (41.2 x 29.8cm.)
HYDERABAD, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the seated figure holding a safina manuscript and prayer beads, blessed gold light emanates from a winged celestial figure above, set beneath cusped arches with arabesques on a pink balcony draped with a white textile, the margins with cusped cartouches containing a muhaqqaq identifying inscription, cartouches separated by small medallions with scrolling floral vine set between bands of strapwork, the outer margins with interlocking palmettes containing scrolling vine and with angels offering pearls above, the reverse with a portrait of a noble out riding with attendants carrying swords and wine cups, set in wide orange and blue margins, areas of flaking and repainting to the illuminated margins, mounted, framed and glazed
Recto portrait 7½ x 4¼in. (19 x 10.8cm.); verso painting 10 1/8 x 9½in. (25.5 x 24cm.); folio 16¼ x 11¾in. (41.2 x 29.8cm.)
刻印
Inscribed in muhaqaaq around the margins, 'The greatest Amir, the greatest Vizier, the dust at whose feet is the greatest touchstone, that is to say the vizier without peer, the gracious Nawwab, His Excellence the Emperor who enjoys a Sultan's titles the guide of Aristotle, the elder of Plato, the master of Hippocrates, the teacher of Bu 'Ali (i.e. Ibn Sina), Nawwab Ghulam Sayyid Khan Suhrab Jang Mu'in al-Dawla Mushir al-Mulk, the chosen one of the realm of Asaf, the supreme representative, the offspring of ...'
榮譽呈獻
Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse