THE POTTER BEFORE THE KING

Lot 73
31.03.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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ID 727196
Lot 73 | THE POTTER BEFORE THE KING
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£ 15 000 – 20 000
THE POTTER BEFORE THE KING

MUGHAL INDIA, 1580-85

An illustration from the Tutinama, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, 5ll. black nasta'liq above, in polychrome and gold rules, the reverse with 15ll. black nasta'liq with key words in red within polychrome and gold rules, margins restored

Painting 7 x 5in. (17.8 x 12.8cm.); folio 10 x 6 1⁄2in. (25.5 x 16.5cm.)







Provenance

General Jean-Francois Allard (d.1839)

Baron Felix Feuillet, France

Private collection, Versailles, France, since the 1970s from which acquired by the current owner







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