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Eleven studies of birds and plants Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824(11) image 1
Eleven studies of birds and plants Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824(11) image 2
Eleven studies of birds and plants Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824(11) image 3
Eleven studies of birds and plants Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824(11) image 4
Eleven studies of birds and plants Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824(11) image 5
Eleven studies of birds and plants Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824(11) image 6
Eleven studies of birds and plants Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824(11) image 7
Eleven studies of birds and plants Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824(11) image 8
Eleven studies of birds and plants Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824(11) image 9
Eleven studies of birds and plants Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824(11) image 10
Eleven studies of birds and plants Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824(11) image 11
Lot 314

Eleven studies of birds and plants
Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824
(11)

Islamic and Indian Art
25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Eleven studies of birds and plants
Company School, Calcutta, and some by European hands, early 19th Century, some with watermarks 1810, 1815, 1818 and 1824

watercolours on paper and card, several variously watermarked, some with identifying inscriptions
the largest 196 x 245 mm.; the smallest 140 x 176 mm.(11)

Footnotes

The paintings are as follows:
A pheasant standing on a branch, watermarked Ga[rner?] 1815, 163 x 224 mm.
A bird with dark plumage standing on a branch, watermarked Ga[rner?] 1810, 140 x 176 mm.
A red-beaked blue jay[?] seated on a branch, watermarked Magnay Pickering & Co., London 1818, 196 x 245 mm.
A nutmeg bird seated on a branch, identifying inscription at lower left, 246 x 197 mm.
A bird with green and blue plumage, watermarked J Whatman 1824, 190 x 245 mm.
A lily, watermarked with indecipherable name of makers, and the date 1815, laid down on a separate sheet, 205 x 254 mm.
A plant, indistinct watermark, 167 x 203 mm.
A flowering plant, 233 x 202 mm.
A crested hoopoe[?], probably European School, 238 x 183 mm.
A parrot[?] standing on a stump, probably European School, embossed stamp Bristol Paper, inscribed in pencil L'Aracari baillon[?], 180 x 226 mm.
The branch of a plum tree, probably European School, embossed stamp of Turnbull's Superfine London board, 304 x 191 mm.

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