A YOUNG PRINCE ACCOMPANIED BY A RETINUE OF HUNTSMEN AND A TRIBAL COUPLE STALKING DEER BY NIGHT
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ID 932152
Lot 60 | A YOUNG PRINCE ACCOMPANIED BY A RETINUE OF HUNTSMEN AND A TRIBAL COUPLE STALKING DEER BY NIGHT
Estimate value
£ 150 000 – 200 000
MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1698-1700
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, to the left a princely figure and his retinue hawking, to the right a Chenchu couple hunt deer by torchlight, later inscription in gold nasta'liq above naming the princely figure as Shah Jahan and attributing the work to Fath Chand, within gold, red and black rules on wide margins illuminated in gold floral motifs backed on plain card
Painting 8 x 12 1/2in. (20 x 32cm.); folio 11 1/4 x 16 1/2in. (28.5 x 42cm.)
Provenance
Anon sale, Sotheby's London, 17th July 1978, lot 25.
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