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Lot 184

A Raja of Bandralta, probably Indra Dev, seated with a hawk, smoking a hookah, an attendant with a flywhisk standing behind him
Bandralta, circa 1750

6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£5,000 - £7,000

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A Raja of Bandralta, probably Indra Dev, seated with a hawk, smoking a hookah, an attendant with a flywhisk standing behind him
Bandralta, circa 1750

gouache on paper, fragmentary red border, laid down on a separate sheet
230 x 335 mm.

Footnotes

Indra Dev, who ruled circa 1730 to circa 1760, is perhaps the most frequently portrayed of the rulers of the small state of Bandralta, just north of Mankot. See W. G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London 1973, vol. I, pp. 8-12; vol. II, pp. 12-13, nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5. No. 4 appears to feature the same distinctively-featured attendant. For a portrait of similar composition depicting an earlier ruler of Bandralta, Kailashpat Dev, circa 1730, see Sam Fogg, Indian Paintings and Manuscripts, Catalogue 21, London 1999, p. 83, no. 52.

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