A YOUTHFUL COURTIER

Lot 91
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 91 | A YOUTHFUL COURTIER
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£ 4 000 – 6 000
A YOUTHFUL COURTIER

MUGHAL INDIA, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, with 1l. of black nasta'liq arranged in two columns above, set within gold and polychrome rules on gold-speckled borders, the plain margins of red dyed card, the verso plain, mounted, surface loss to pigment

Painting 6 ¾ x 4in. (17.1 x 10cm.); folio 12 x 7 1⁄8in. (30.5 x 18.2cm.)





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Bonhams, London, 4 October 2011, lot 312
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