AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF EMPEROR BAHADUR SHAH (R.1707-12) WITH ATTENDANTS, WITH A CALLIGRAHY ON THE REVERSE, INDIA, MUGHAL, 18TH CENTURY
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June 10, 06:00 PM GMT
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12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF EMPEROR BAHADUR SHAH (R.1707-12) WITH ATTENDANTS, WITH A CALLIGRAHY ON THE REVERSE, INDIA, MUGHAL, 18TH CENTURY
gouache with gold on paper, the verso with 4 lines of black nasta’liq within clouds against a gold ground, signed Ray Jugal Kishor 1137 AH/1724-25 AD
painting: 26 by 19cm.
calligraphy: 27 by 14.6cm.
leaf: 32.4 by 22cm.
Bonhams London, 2 April 2009, lot 138.
The verso of this album page bears a quatrain composed for the occasion of a celebration in the year 1137 AH (1725 AD) and copied in nasta’liq by Rai Jugal Kishor (d.1759), possibly the agent of the Nawab of Bengal at the court of Muhammad Shah.