Four designs for a covered sedan chair, a four-poster bed, an ornate armchair, and a palanquin or throne Benares, circa 1880(4)
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Four designs for a covered sedan chair, a four-poster bed, an ornate armchair, and a palanquin or throne
Benares, circa 1880
pen and ink and watercolour on paper, one with nagari inscription, all folded and with some creasing, unframed
158 x 303 mm.; 360 x 341 mm.; 313 x 244 mm.; 496 x 250 mm.(4)
Estimate:
£1,000 - 1,500
€1,200 - 1,800
US$ 1,600 - 2,300

Footnotes

  • For a group of similar designs, see Sotheby's, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection: Part Two: Arts of India, 31st May 2011, lot 134. See also S. C. Welch, Room for Wonder: Indian Painting during the British Period 1760-1880, New York 1987, pp. 150-151, no. 67; and the sale in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 4th October 2011, lot 437.

Category: Islamic and Oriental Art / Islamic and Indian Art

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