ID 1178419
Lot 97 | A TRIBUTE TO THE VIRGIN MARY
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
ATTRIBUTABLE TO KESHAV DAS, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1590-1610
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, pasted into a later album page, within gold, black and green rules, an inner border of ten cartouches containing Chaghatai poetry in black nasta'liq in clouds against gold, framed within an outer border of eight gold and polychrome illuminated triangular and semi-circular panels, the pink margins decorated with gold floral sprays and scrolls, the verso plain
Painting 5 ¼ x 3 ½in. (13.2 x 8.9cm); folio 11 ¾ x 7 7⁄8in. (29.5 x 20cm.)
Provenance
Private French Collection by 1973
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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