HYDERABAD, DECCAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1815

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NAWAB AL-MULK MUNIR OF HYDERABAD RECEIVING RAJAB CHANDU LAL BAHADUR AND SON
HYDERABAD, DECCAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1815
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, identification inscriptions in small nasta'liq above each principal figure, within gold, black and white rules and orange margins
Painting 8 3⁄8 x 6 1/8in. (21.2 x 15.5cm.); folio 9 3⁄8 x 7in. (23.8cm. x 17.8cm.)

Provenance

Islamic and Indian Art Including The Lion and the Sun, Art from Qajar Persia, Bonhams London, 30 April 2019, lot 170

Engraved

Shabih-e nawwab al-mulk bahadur, 'Portrait of Nawwab Al-Mulk Bahadur'
Raja Chandu Lal Bahadur
Rajah Bala Prashad

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Lot Essay

Munir al-Mulk, Aristu Jah (“Aristotle of the time”), was the Diwan (Prime Minister) of Hyderabad state from 1809 until 1832 during the reign of Sikandar Jah Bahadur (r.1803-29). He is receiving Rajah Chandu Lal Bahadur (1766-1845), who was a minister to the Nizam and thought of by many as the true power behind the throne. A portrait of the two men with Nizam Sikander Jah is in Mark Zebrowski, Deccani Painting, London, 1983, no. 249, p. 70. A portrait of Munir al-Mulk is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (AC1999.55.1).

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