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Gauri ragini: a maiden in a landscape holding decorated floral wands Mughal, mid-18th Century image 1
Gauri ragini: a maiden in a landscape holding decorated floral wands Mughal, mid-18th Century image 2
Lot 279

Gauri ragini: a maiden in a landscape holding decorated floral wands
Mughal, mid-18th Century

25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£8,000 - £12,000

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Gauri ragini: a maiden in a landscape holding decorated floral wands
Mughal, mid-18th Century

gouache and gold on paper laid down on an album page with gold-sprinkled borders, verso, a calligraphic composition by Murid Khan Tabataba, India, circa 1730-40 comprising 15 lines of text written diagonally in shikasteh, inner margins ruled in colours and gold
painting 227 x 154 mm.; calligraphic composition 248 x 145 mm.; album page 448 x 308 mm.

Footnotes

The calligraphic album page verso, written in shikasteh, was copied by Murid Khan Tabataba. The scribe is recorded as an official at the court of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah (reg. 1719-48), and was noted for his skill in various styles of calligraphy, in particular thuluth and shikasteh (see Bayani, vol. 4, p. 269). His recorded works include an album of calligraphic pages, originally in the possession of Colonel Polier, now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (Supplement Persian 391); some texts added to a copy of Sa'di's Gulistan in the Royal Asiatic Society; a collection of his calligraphic pages compiled in 1738, in the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library; and an album page on the reverse of an Indian painting sold in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 15th April 2010, lot 339.

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