拍品專文
The nasta'liq inscriptions below the painting identify the couple as Jahangir and Nur Jahan.
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DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
細節
AN ALBUM PAGE: A PRINCELY COUPLE
DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, they hold each other amorously, he wears an elaborate turban and drinks from a white cup, holding a khanda, she wears a gold-trimmed veil, holds a bottle, laid down on marbled card, later attributions in nasta'liq script below; the reverse with a quatrain in nasta'liq script on fine marbled paper, laid down on another fine type of marbled paper
Page 12 ½ x 8in. (31.7 x 20.3cm.); painting 6 ¾ x 3 5/8in. (17.2 x 9.3cm.)
DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, they hold each other amorously, he wears an elaborate turban and drinks from a white cup, holding a khanda, she wears a gold-trimmed veil, holds a bottle, laid down on marbled card, later attributions in nasta'liq script below; the reverse with a quatrain in nasta'liq script on fine marbled paper, laid down on another fine type of marbled paper
Page 12 ½ x 8in. (31.7 x 20.3cm.); painting 6 ¾ x 3 5/8in. (17.2 x 9.3cm.)
來源
Lockwood de Forest II (1850-1932), thence Lockwood de Forest III (1896-1949) and his wife, Elizabeth (d. 1984)
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