MUGHAL STYLE AT KISHANGARH, NORTH INDIA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A PORTRAIT OF SHAYBANI KHAN THE CHINGIZID
MUGHAL STYLE AT KISHANGARH, NORTH INDIA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a heavily armed Shaybani Khan, wearing gold-embroidered purple robes, sits upon his large brown horse, a sheild to his side and a red turban upon his head, laid down between floral borders and polychrome rules on gold-speckled pink margins, identification inscription and an attribution to Bichitr in the lower margin, reverse with a panel of mashq attributed to Mir 'Imad with gold-speckled polychrome borders on wide cream margin, areas of scuffing
Painting 10¼ x 6¾in. (26.1 x 17.2cm.); folio 14 x 10 1/8in. (35.6 x 25.8cm.)

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Lot Essay

This painting is probably a copy of a Mughal original of the first half of the 16th century executed by a Kishangarh artist in the early 18th century. For a note on Mughal paintings at Kishangarh see Terence McInerney, Indian Painting 1525-1825, London, 1983, pp.44-45.

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