ID 828625
Lot 67 | A YOGI IS OFFERED A GIFT
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
MUGHAL STYLE, PERHAPS AT BIKANER, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1620
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, mounted within later red margins with white and black rules, and a narrow yellow outer border, the reverse plain and with the Bikaner inventory number 'am.12'
Painting 7 3/8 x 5 1/2in. (19.5 x 13.8cm.); folio 9 5/8 x 7 1/4in. (24.5 x 18.3cm.)
Provenance
Inventory stamp of the Bikaner Royal Collection on the reverse
Literature
L.V. Habighorst, Blumen - Bäume - Göttergärten in indischen Miniaturen, Koblenz, 2011, fig. 69, pp. 95-98.
J.P. Losty, Indian Paintings from the Ludwig Habighorst Collection, Francesca Galloway, London, 2018, no. 25.
Exhibited
Blumen - Bäume - Göttergärten - Indische Malerei aus sechs Jahrhunderten, Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, 17 March - 27 October 2013.
Indische Gärten/Gärten der Welt, Zürich, Museum Rietberg, 2016.
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Gouache |
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia, Mughal Empire |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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