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Rajah Ajmet Dev (reg. circa 1750-65) Mankot, second half of the 18th Century image 1
Rajah Ajmet Dev (reg. circa 1750-65) Mankot, second half of the 18th Century image 2
Lot 231

Rajah Ajmet Dev (reg. circa 1750-65)
Mankot, second half of the 18th Century

22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Rajah Ajmet Dev (reg. circa 1750-65)
Mankot, second half of the 18th Century

gouache and gold on paper, black inner border, pink outer border, one line of takri script verso
218 x 160 mm.

Footnotes

Provenance
The Estate of Phillip Allen (1938-2022).

Phillip Allen was a collector, a scholar, and a member of the Oriental Ceramics Society. He was a frequent contributor to the Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society and participated in the cataloguing of the Sir Victor Sassoon collection of Chinese ivories. He was also instrumental in organising their bequest to the British Museum.

For other portrayals of Ajmet Dev, see:
Important Oriental Miniatures, Manuscripts and Qajar Lacquer, 8th-9th October 1979, lot 154, dated 1720-30 (illus.).
Sotheby's, Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 15th October 1997, lot 75.
Sotheby's New York, Indian and Southeast Asian Works of Art, 20th March 2013, lot 322.
Francesca Galloway, Indian Miniatures, London 2005, pp. 72-73, no. 30.

See also W. G. Archer, Indian Painting from the Punjab Hills, London 1973, pp. 378-379, nos. 33 and 34.

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