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TWO ALBUMS OF PAINTINGS OF ARMS
TWO ALBUMS OF PAINTINGS OF ARMS
TWO ALBUMS OF PAINTINGS OF ARMS
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ARMS AND ARMOUR FROM THE COLLECTION OF HOWARD RICKETTS
TWO ALBUMS OF PAINTINGS OF ARMS

INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

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TWO ALBUMS OF PAINTINGS OF ARMS
INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Comprising two albums and four loose folios, the first album containing twelve watercolour paintings of arms with brief explanatory notes in Urdu, the second containing seventeen watercolour paintings of arms with brief explanatory notes in Urdu and typed translations in English, each painting of one or more arms surrounded by a floral border, in brown moulded and gilt leather binding, the loose folios corresponding to omissions in the bound albums
Each painting 14 ¼ x 8 ¼in. (36 x 21cm.)
Literature
Howard Ricketts and David Sulzberger, Islamic Military Heritage, Nine centuries of Islamic arms and armour, Riyadh, 1991, p. 46, no. 255 (selection shown)
Exhibited
Islamic Military Heritage, Nine centuries of Islamic arms and armour, Riyadh, 1991

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Lot Essay

These rare albums of watercolour portraits of arms are invaluable to the study of Indian and Iranian arms and armour due to the brief descriptions inscribed with each painting. They were most likely commissioned by a European visitor to India with a keen interest in the arms of India and Iran, although there is an outside chance a non-European collector of rare and fine arms and armour, such as one of the Mirs of Sindh, had the albums made.

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