A senior servant, with a silver staff of office, standing...
A senior servant, with a silver staff of office, standing on a terrace, a landscape beyond
Lucknow, circa 1825-30
watercolour on paper
165 x 110 mm.
Provenance
Sotheby's, Indian Miniatures, the Travel Sale: India and the Far East, Modern & Contemporary South Asian Paintings, 17th June 1999, lot 62 (illustrated).
Private US collection.
For another example (of a head table-servant, khansama) from a similar series, see Sotheby's, Exotica: East Meets West, 1500-1900, 25th May 2005, lot 133; and M. Archer, Company Drawings in the India Office Library, London 1972, pp. 160-162, and pl. 51 for an album of fifty such paintings of servants and tradespeople produced at Lucknow.
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A senior servant, with a silver staff of office, standing on a terrace, a landscape beyond
Lucknow, circa 1825-30
watercolour on paper
165 x 110 mm.
Provenance
Sotheby's, Indian Miniatures, the Travel Sale: India and the Far East, Modern & Contemporary South Asian Paintings, 17th June 1999, lot 62 (illustrated).
Private US collection.
For another example (of a head table-servant, khansama) from a similar series, see Sotheby's, Exotica: East Meets West, 1500-1900, 25th May 2005, lot 133; and M. Archer, Company Drawings in the India Office Library, London 1972, pp. 160-162, and pl. 51 for an album of fifty such paintings of servants and tradespeople produced at Lucknow.
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