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PROPERTY FROM THE ASBJORN LUNDE FOUNDATION
Lot 313

AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A SHAHNAMA SERIES:
ARDASHIR RECOGNIZES HIS SON SHAPUR AT A POLO GAME
MUGHAL, CIRCA 1600-30

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New York

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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A SHAHNAMA SERIES:
ARDASHIR RECOGNIZES HIS SON SHAPUR AT A POLO GAME

MUGHAL, CIRCA 1600-30
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; laid on an album page with early 19th-century painted floral borders; verso with an 18th-century ornate floral study painted with opaque watercolor and gold on paper with gold-speckled indigo border; verso with ink nastaliq inscription in top margin, translated, "The album of Kahanya (ghuniya) La'l Pandit", and another illegible nastaliq inscription in bottom margin.
Together with a late-16th century Persian miniature of Princes (possibly Bahram Gur) Hunting Deer. (2)
Image: 9 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (23.5 x 13.6 cm);
Folio: 18 6/8 x 12 3/8 in.(47.2 x 31.4 cm)

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Please note our correction to this painting's attribution. This lot is now identified and being sold as a 19TH CENTURY version of a popular Mughal subject. Please also note the lot's estimate has been adjusted accordingly to $4,000-6,000 USD.
King Ardashir (r. 224-42), founder of the Sasanian Empire, observes a polo game flanked by his court officials. The artist captures the moment when Ardashir, impressed by a youth's ability and prowess, questions his identity and discovers him to be his own son Shapur, born and raised in secrecy.

Provenance:
Collection of Sir Edward Denison Ross (1871-1940)
Property of a Lady
Maggs Bros. Ltd., London, 21 March 1961
Collection of Asbjorn Lunde (1927-2017), New York

Saleroom notices

Please note our correction to this painting's attribution. This lot is now identified and being sold as a 19TH CENTURY version of a popular Mughal subject. Please also note the lot's estimate has been adjusted accordingly to $4,000-6,000 USD.

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