JAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

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A STUDY FOR A DAGGER SHEATH
JAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, with seven portraits depicting rulers, princesses and a European man, on black ground, within roundels, the lower-most oblong cartouche inhabited by a feline subduing a dragon, arranged vertically, the finial drawn as a wide spade, the reverse inscribed 'A K Coomaraswamy' in black roman script
11 ¼in. (28.8cm.) long

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Lot Essay

Another painted study for a dagger sheath from Jaipur, although much later and dated circa 1890, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. IS.24-1992 https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O430113/painting-unknown/).

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