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VARIOUS PROPERTIES<br />
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A PRINCESS IN A BLOSSOMING TREE<br />
DECCAN, CENTRAL <strong>INDIA</strong>, MID-18TH CENTURY<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, she stands under a<br />
blossoming tree, wearing a bejewelled turban, yellow diaphanous robe and<br />
gold trousers, she smokes a huqqa, birds along a stream in the foreground,<br />
against a green background with blue skyline, mounted on black card<br />
8º x 5in. (21.1 x 12.8cm.)<br />
£4,000-6,000 $5,700-8,500<br />
€5,000-7,500<br />
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AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT <strong>OF</strong> A MUGHAL NOBLE<br />
KISHANGARH, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, facing left, wearing a red<br />
turban and white tunic embroidered with gold leaf motifs, wearing a sword,<br />
mounted on prancing piebald stallion, within gold margins, the wide borders<br />
with white scrolling foral motifs, the reverse with a calligraphic panel, within<br />
gold rules and wide gold-speckled margins, mounted<br />
17º x 11ºin. (43.9 x 28.5cm.)<br />
£6,000-8,000 $8,600-11,000<br />
€7,500-10,000<br />
The motif of a beautiful woman embracing a tree is an ancient Indian motif<br />
known as the salabhanjika. The present painting presents a variation on this<br />
theme, as our lady is not strictly grasping the tree but holds the snake pipe<br />
of her huqqa. For a related portrait of a woman grasping a fowering tree,<br />
attributed to Deccan, circa 1720 see Ivory and Painting, Indian Goods for the<br />
Luxury markets, Francesca Galloway, London, 2011, cat.22, pp.66-67.<br />
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