A PORTRAIT OF HAYAT KHAN, KHIDMAT PARAST (D. AH 1068/1658 AD)

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Lot 1 | A PORTRAIT OF HAYAT KHAN, KHIDMAT PARAST (D. AH 1068/1658 AD)
A PORTRAIT OF HAYAT KHAN, KHIDMAT PARAST (D. AH 1068/1658 AD)

SIGNED MURAR, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1630

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the portrait laid down between gold-illuminated red and blue borders within gold and polychrome rules, buff margins with gold and polychrome flowering plants, verso with Persian poetry from a Shahnama of Firdawsi, 15ll. black nasta'liq in clouds reserved against a gold ground, laid down between alternating greyish and peach borders within gold and polychrome rules, buff margins with gold and polychrome arabesques and cloudbands

Portrait 5 7/8 x 3in. (15 x 7.5cm.); calligraphy 5 ¾ x 2 ¾in. (14.5 x 16.8cm.); folio 13 1/8 x 8 ¾in. (33.3 x 22.2cm.)





Provenance

Baron Edmond de Rothschild (d.1934)

With Colnaghi, Persian and Mughal Art, London, 1976, no.113



Literature

B.W. Robinson et al, Persian and Mughal Art, P & D Colnaghi, London, 1976, no.113, p.192 and 212

Milo Cleveland Beach and Ebba Koch, King of the World. The Padshahnama. An Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, exhibition catalogue, Washington DC, 1997, fig.107, p.188



Exhibited

Colnaghi, Persian and Mughal Art, London, 1976, no.113
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