MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1760

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SHAYKH 'ABD AL-QADIR JILANI AND 'ABD AL-RAZZAQ JILANI
MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1760
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, two men sit on raised platforms, a narrow river in the background, set within a blue border with gold illuminated scrolling vine on wide gold-speckled margins, a cusped cartouche in the upper margin containing an attribution in elegant nasta'liq on gold ground, two small inscriptions below the figures identifying them, reverse plain
Painting 8³⁄₈ x 5¹⁄₂in. (21.3 x 14cm.); folio 19¹⁄₂ x 13¹⁄₂in. (49.2 x 34.3cm.)

Provenance

Private Swiss collection by 1981 and thence by descent until moved to London, 1999, and thence by descent

Engraved

In the cartouche, tasvir-i ghawth al-a’zam u shah ‘abd al-razzaq, ‘Depiction of Ghawth al-A’zam and Shah ‘Abd al-Razzaq'

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Lot Essay

An earlier portrait of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qadir Jilani, Mughal India, circa 1680, was sold in these Rooms, 25 April 2018, lot 114. Recent auction records for folios from the Husn Album include a page sold at Olympia Auctions, London, 20 May 2026, lot 24.

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