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MUGHAL, NORTH INDIA, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
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A PORTRAIT OF THE MUGHAL EMPEROR SHAH JAHAN
MUGHAL, NORTH INDIA, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
Gouache with gold on paper, the nimbate ruler facing right, dressed in diaphanous white jama, hands resting on a sword, on green ground, within polychrome borders, gold rules and wide gold-speckled margins
Painting: 6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10.1 cm.)
Folio: 15 1/8 x 10 ¼ in. (38.2 x 26 cm.)
MUGHAL, NORTH INDIA, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
Gouache with gold on paper, the nimbate ruler facing right, dressed in diaphanous white jama, hands resting on a sword, on green ground, within polychrome borders, gold rules and wide gold-speckled margins
Painting: 6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10.1 cm.)
Folio: 15 1/8 x 10 ¼ in. (38.2 x 26 cm.)
Provenance
Anon. gift, before 6 June 1973
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