SAWAR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1700

A drawing dating from circa 1680 of Thakur Pratap Singh of Sawar on a similarly delineated elephant was published by Indar Pasricha ('Sawar and Isarda in the 17th Century', Oriental Art, XXVIII, no. 3, 1982, fig.2, p.260). Other Sawar paintings of elephants all tend, like here, to have strikingly orange saddle-cloths (see, for instance, examples sold Christie’s London, 25 May 2017, lot 37; Bonham’s New York, 23 September 2021, lot 1217).