An album page: A Mughal youth with...
An album page: A Mughal youth with a bird, North India, late 18th-early 19th century, opaque pigments and gold on paper, the youth depicted standing, wearing a turban and an orange jama, holding a bird, laid down on card with blue floral borders, the reverse with a calligraphic panel in nasta’liq script arranged as eight panels, each of two lines, on gold and polychrome illuminated ground, mounted, 33.3 x 21.6cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Switzerland formed between the 1970s-90s.
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An album page: A Mughal youth with a bird, North India, late 18th-early 19th century, opaque pigments and gold on paper, the youth depicted standing, wearing a turban and an orange jama, holding a bird, laid down on card with blue floral borders, the reverse with a calligraphic panel in nasta’liq script arranged as eight panels, each of two lines, on gold and polychrome illuminated ground, mounted, 33.3 x 21.6cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Switzerland formed between the 1970s-90s.