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A deity
gouache heightened with gold on paper, in an archway with rolled drape above, wearing orange jama and ornate headdress the four armed deity stands holding its attributes including a shell, gold and blue meandering vine border within gold and white rules, on gold leaf painted with polychrome flowering vine border and carnation sprays, India, probably 18th century - 7 x 3½in .(17.6 x 8.9cm.); an equestrian portrait of a noble, supposedly Shah Jehan, in blue and gold border on pink leaf - 9 x 6¾in. (22.8 x 17.3cm.); and an illustrated folio from a manuscript, showing a king watching two men saw wood, four columns of nasta'liq, illuminated margin - 14½ x 8¾in. (36.7 x 22.4cm.), both Delhi, 19th century (3)
gouache heightened with gold on paper, in an archway with rolled drape above, wearing orange jama and ornate headdress the four armed deity stands holding its attributes including a shell, gold and blue meandering vine border within gold and white rules, on gold leaf painted with polychrome flowering vine border and carnation sprays, India, probably 18th century - 7 x 3½in .(17.6 x 8.9cm.); an equestrian portrait of a noble, supposedly Shah Jehan, in blue and gold border on pink leaf - 9 x 6¾in. (22.8 x 17.3cm.); and an illustrated folio from a manuscript, showing a king watching two men saw wood, four columns of nasta'liq, illuminated margin - 14½ x 8¾in. (36.7 x 22.4cm.), both Delhi, 19th century (3)
