NUR JAHAN ON A TERRACE WITH ATTENDANT

Лот 100
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£ 22 680
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Лот 100 | NUR JAHAN ON A TERRACE WITH ATTENDANT
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£ 20 000 – 30 000
NUR JAHAN ON A TERRACE WITH ATTENDANT

SIGNED BY NIDHA MAL, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1740

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, signed mid-left, set within gold and black rules, the margins decorated with gold lattice, the verso black nasta'liq inscription at the top with extensive translations and transliteration below in ink and pencil

9 ¾ x 6 3⁄8in. (24.8 x 16.2cm.); folio 12 x 8 ½in. (30.5 x 21.6cm.)





Provenance

In Venice by 1894 as per the notes on the reverse



Inscribed

The English translation of the Persian at the top of the reverse; View of Delhi, the capital, the gardens, the whole country, the palace and the Kutab with the portrait of Nur Jehan Begam, daughter of Mirza Ghayas-uddin, the Persian, the beloved of the Emperor Jahangir, together with the portrait of Sikander Bano Mumtaz Begam, Taj Mahal Shah Jehan
(Couplet) By order of the Emperor Jehangir obtained a hundred jewels; Became light of the world (Nur Jahan) by the grace of God; Gold by the name of Nur Jehan Badshah Begam; the companion of life, and the sharer of the secrets of Jehangir Shah
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