Sale 12471
London
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26 May 2016
Price realised
GBP 10,000
Estimate
MAHARANA SANGRAM SINGH IN A LAKE PAVILION UDAIPUR, MEWAR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1725-50 Opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, Maharana Sangram Singh seated within a lake pavilion, smoking a huqqa, surrounded by ladies swimming, a group of women dancing and playing music in the foreground, the reverse with five lines of black devanagari script and English inscription in pencil Painting 11 3/8 x 13 3/8in. (31.5 x 33.8cm.)
Provenance
Acquired before 1991.
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Literature
Joachim Bautze, Die Welt der hofischen Malerei (pp.123-180), in Gerd Kreisel (ed.), Rajasthan: Land des Konige, Stuttgart, 1995, p. 157, no. 139
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