ID 1178442
Lot 98 | A VISIT TO A HOLY MAN
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within gold and black rules and narrow gold-sprinkled buff borders, mounted within finely illuminated margins in polychrome and gold, the verso plain
Painting 3 7⁄8 x 2 1⁄8in. (10.2 x 5.4cm.); folio 12 1⁄8 x 7 ¾in. (31.3 x 19.9cm.)
Provenance
Rothschild Collection, Paris, early twentieth century
Colnaghi, Persian and Indian Painting, London, 1976, p. 218, no. 108
Literature
Toby Falk, Rothschild Collection of Mughal Miniatures, exhibition catalogue, London, 1976, no. 108, p.218
| Medium: | Gold |
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Medium: | Gold |
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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