CHAND BIBI HUNTING MUGHAL INDIA, MID-18TH CENTURY

CHAND BIBI HUNTING
MUGHAL INDIA, MID-18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper set within cream borders with blue and gold floral meander, gold and polychrome rules, the verso with a calligraphic composition from the Munajar of Khawaja 'Abdullah Ansari signed by Sapahi, comprising 3ll. black nasta'liq reserved in clouds against a white ground decorated with polychrome flowers, set within a cross-hatched buff inner border and blue outer border with floral meander, the buff margins on both sides illustrated with opaque pigments heightened with gold and depicting royal hunting scenes, overall good condition
Recto: painting 8 x 5 ¼in. (20.3 x 13.3cm.); verso: text panel 8 ½ x 6 1⁄8in. (21.6 x 5.5cm.); folio 16 ¼ x 11 ½in. (41 x 29.2 cm.)

Provenance
Collection of Sir Hercules Read, sold Sotheby's London, 21 November 1928, lot 41
US trade, 1980s, when acquired by the present owner