A ROYAL CAVALCADE OF HUNTERS AND A CHENCHU COUPLE STALKING DEER BY NIGHT - photo 1
A ROYAL CAVALCADE OF HUNTERS AND A CHENCHU COUPLE STALKING DEER BY NIGHT - photo 2
A ROYAL CAVALCADE OF HUNTERS AND A CHENCHU COUPLE STALKING DEER BY NIGHT - photo 3

A ROYAL CAVALCADE OF HUNTERS AND A CHENCHU COUPLE STALKING DEER BY NIGHT

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£ 693 000
Auction dateClassic
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 828608
Lot 95 | A ROYAL CAVALCADE OF HUNTERS AND A CHENCHU COUPLE STALKING DEER BY NIGHT
A ROYAL CAVALCADE OF HUNTERS AND A CHENCHU COUPLE STALKING DEER BY NIGHT

THE PAINTING, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1691; THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED 'IMAD AL-HASSANI, SAFAVID IRAN, CIRCA 1600; THE BORDER SIGNED MUHAMMAD YAZDI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1247/1831-32 AD

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, to the left a noble on horseback and his retinue are hawking, to the right two Bhils are hunting deer by torchlight, within gold and white rules on wide margins illuminated in gold with animals and plants; the calligraphy on the reverse composed of three panels, each with 7ll. black nasta'liq in white clouds against a gold and polychrome illuminated ground, one panel signed, within pink and gold illuminated borders, the dark blue margins with gold illuminated flowers and insects, signed and dated in upper margin

Painting 9 1/4 x 14 3/4in. (23.5 x 37.5cm.); calligraphy 9 3/4 x 7 1/8in. (24.7 x 18cm.); folio 12 3/4 x 18 3/4in. (32.5 x 47.8cm.)





Literature

Adeela Qureshi de Unger, The Hunt as Metaphor in Mughal Painting (1556-1707), Artibus Asiae Publishers, Suppl. LV [55], Zurich, 2022, fig. 112 (forthcoming 2022)
Medium:Acrylic glass, Gold, Paper, Plastic
Art style:Safavid (1506-1722)
Historical era:Qajar dynasty
Place of origin:India, Iran, Asia, Mughal Empire
Auction house category:Paintings
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