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Lot 58

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar (reg. 1713-19) standing, holding a flower
Jaipur, late 18th Century

30 March 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar (reg. 1713-19) standing, holding a flower
Jaipur, late 18th Century

gouache and gold on paper, pink floral inner border, red outer border, identifying inscription in nasta'liq script Farrukhsiyar Padshah, inscribed in upper right border in a 19th Century hand Farrukh Siyar Emperor when Sir Hugh Middleton treated and obtained valuable concessions for the East India Company
311 x 235 mm.

Footnotes

The Emperor Farrukhsiyar granted a firman to the East India Company in 1717 granting them duty-free trading rights for Bengal, strengthening their posts on the east coast. This helped the Company to import goods into Bengal without paying customs duty to the government. However, the writer of the note in the margin may perhaps have confused Sir Hugh Myddleton, an Elizabethan merchant who was involved in the very early days of the East India Company, with another figure: it has not been possible to find a record of any Sir Hugh Middleton at this period of the Company.

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