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A YOUNG NOBLEMAN HOLDING A SPEAR
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- A YOUNG NOBLEMAN HOLDING A SPEAR
- Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
- image: 6 1/4 by 3 1/4 in. (15.9 by 8.3 cm)
- folio: 14 3/8 by 9 1/8 in. (36.5 by 23.2 cm) unframed
Catalogue Note
A muraqqa' (album) folio with inner buff borders of lightly-toned salmon and cream color with flecked gold and floral designs. Outer natural-buff gold flecked borders with an ink and gold rosette.
A young Mughal prince holding a sharp spear in one hand while enjoying the fragrance of a small blossom. He wears a gold floral-design payjama under a diaphanous white muslin jama, yellow and gold patka, jewelry a🍰nd a Mughal cap with gold bands and a feathered aigrette. Standing on a very low horizon with the merest suggestion of a flower strewn landscape. On a blue-green 👍ground rising to a red streaked cloudy sky.