Arts of the Islamic World & India

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Property of a Lady

A domestic female fowl, India, Lucknow, Company School, circa 1780

Auction Closed

April 30, 03:48 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

watercolour, ink and pen, heighted with bodycolour and gum arabic on paper, laid down on stout green paper, attached mount with coloured rules, Urdu inscriptions in black nasta'liq lower edge and inscribed '12' centre right, framed


61.4 by 40.8cm.

Major General Claude Martin (1735-1800)

Arthur Jeffries Gallery, London

From whom acquired in 1956 by the Hon. Michael Astor (1916-80)

Thence by inheritance to the present owner

inscriptions


mada murgh-i sabzawar

‘Female fowl of Sabzawar’


The female fowl (hen) like the male is round with short wings, the hen typically has a shorter tail and a smaller comb and wattle than the male. The hen can lay up to 250 eggs a year. 

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