A TRIBUTE TO THE VIRGIN MARY

Lot 97
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 97 | A TRIBUTE TO THE VIRGIN MARY
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£ 30 000 – 50 000
A TRIBUTE TO THE VIRGIN MARY

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.)





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Private French Collection by 1973
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