A PRINCE CONVERSES WITH A SAGE

Lot 64
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 64 | A PRINCE CONVERSES WITH A SAGE
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£ 80 000 – 100 000
A PRINCE CONVERSES WITH A SAGE

ATTRIBUTED TO GOVARDHAN, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1605

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper set between black and gold rules, a strip of plain paper above and below, mounted in later pink paper margins, the reverse with Mughal royal library stamps

Painting 6 x 3 1/2in. (15.2 x 8.8cm.); folio 8 1/2 x 5 3/8in. (21.8 x 13.7cm.)





Literature

J. Bautze in C. P. Haase, J. Kröger, U. Linert. Morgenländische Pracht - Islamische Kunst aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Edition Temmen, Hamburg 1993, p.264, pl.186.

L. V. Habighorst, Blumen - Bäume - Göttergärten in indischen Miniaturen, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz, 2010, p.106, pl.75.

L. V. Habighorst, 'Hierarchy and Models. Some Notes on Shaiks in Mughal Painting' in U. Bhatia, A. N. Khanna and V. Sharma, The Diverse World of Indian Painting, Aryan Books, New Delhi, 2009, p. 31, pl.4.1.

J. Seyller, 'Govardhan', in M. C. Beach, E. Fischer and B.N. Goswamy (eds.), Masters of Indian Painting 1100-1650, Artibus Asiae Publishers, Zürich, Suppl. 48, 2011, p.357-374, fig.10.



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Islamische Kunst aus deutschen Privatbesitz, Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 18 June-22 August 1993.
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