Property of a Philadelphia Private Collector
A Rathore Thakur on Horseback in a Procession, Rajasthan / Jodhpur, circa 1830s
Auction Closed
March 20, 05:22 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Opaque waterbased pigments with gold on paper
Waterbased pigments with gold on paper
Inscribed above in black ink devanagari script.
Framed.
9 by 12⅜ in., 22.9 by 31.4 cm
Collection of William P. Wood (1927-96), President of the Philadelphia Museum 🌳of Art from 1976-1980, acquired in India with Stuart 𒁃Cary-Welch in 1957.
A mounted nobleman holding a long sharp spear - a Rathore thakur (nobleman) from a fiefdom of Marwar - rides his gray dappled stallion, accompanied by a retinue of his soldiers bearing swords, a spear, a hukkah and a black chಌauri ceremonial flywhisk. The group shown marching against a mossy green ground rising to a strip of cloudy blue
sky.
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