Tobias and the angel(?)
gouache heightened with gold on paper, in a verdant landscape with a stream in front, the winged creature with feather-covered body and wearing a leaf skirt sits on a raised round stone while the similarly covered boy offers it a fish, a quatrain in black nastaliq above and below, gold and orange margins between black rules, buff and blue borders painted with gold flowering vine, on green leaf similarly painted, inscribed above 'picture of a perizad and a boy with a fish in his hand', Mughal, circa 1600 (slight flaking and rubbing, small areas of possible overpainting) - 5¾ x 4in. (14.6 x 10.1cm.)
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Tobias and the angel(?)
gouache heightened with gold on paper, in a verdant landscape with a stream in front, the winged creature with feather-covered body and wearing a leaf skirt sits on a raised round stone while the similarly covered boy offers it a fish, a quatrain in black nastaliq above and below, gold and orange margins between black rules, buff and blue borders painted with gold flowering vine, on green leaf similarly painted, inscribed above 'picture of a perizad and a boy with a fish in his hand', Mughal, circa 1600 (slight flaking and rubbing, small areas of possible overpainting) - 5¾ x 4in. (14.6 x 10.1cm.)
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