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Lot 1187
  • 1187

AN ILLUSTRATION DEPICTING THREE HOLY MEN IN CONVERSATION AT NIGHT

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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • AN ILLUSTRATION DEPICTING THREE HOLY MEN IN CONVERSATION AT NIGHT
  • Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
  • image: 3 7/8 by 3 3/8 in. (10 by 8.6 cm);
  • folio: 13 1/4 by 10 7/8 in. (33.6 by 27.6 cm) unframed

Catalogue Note

Three holy men perhaps on a pilgrimage warm themselves near a smoking campfire as they rest beneath a tree - accompanied by two exhausted saluki hounds.  A fine fragment from a larger Seventeenth Century Mughal manuscript folio, trimmed and later remounted with likely Eighteenth Century Persian borders.