• Christies auction house James Christie logo

    Sale 6169

    Visions of India

    London

    |

    5 October 1999

    Browse Sale
Previous Lot
Search
Next Lot
    • Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karray
    Lot 117

    Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya (fl.1830-1850)

    A Calcutta Hackney coach

    Price realised

    GBP 6,900

    Estimate

    GBP 6,000 - GBP 8,000

    Follow lot

    Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya (fl.1830-1850)
    A Calcutta Hackney coach
    signed in Urdu (lower left) and with inscription 'Calcutta Hackney coach' (lower centre, in the margin)
    pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of white
    7.7/8 x 11.5/8 in. (20 x 29.6 cm.)

    Contact us

    • Contact Client Service

      info@christies.com

      New York +1 212 636 2000

      London +44 (0)20 7839 9060

      infoasia@christies.com

      Asia +852 2760 1766

    Lot Essay

    The present watercolour can be compared to a slightly smaller example in the Edwin Binney Collection, published by Stuart Cary Welch in Room for Wonder, Indian Painting during the British Period 1760-1880, New York, 1978, p. 72, no. 24, illustrated.
    The watercolour belonging to Mr. Binney came from an album of watercolours by Muhammad Amir commissioned by a Calcutta business man Thomas Holroyd, c. 1835-40.
    For a note on the artist see lot 115.

    Recommended features

      • Live like a Rockefeller — Pabl
      • Live like a Rockefeller — Pablo Picasso’s Pomme

        Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s ’story teller’ for The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, looks at a painting that gives him ‘goose-bumps’

      • Virtual tour: Post-War and Con
      • Virtual tour: Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s Amsterdam

        Discover CoBrA, Basquiat, Polke and more at De Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam

Share
Email
Copy link
Share
Email
Copy link