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LOT 2022
Framed Watercolour Painting
INDIA, 20TH CENTURY A.D.
12 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (528 grams, 32.5 x 23.5 cm).
Showing figures in an architectural setting, water and landscape beyond; possibly two female attendants, one holding a torch, the other keeping guard, assisting their mistress who has ventured out at dusk to meet her lover; set in a reveal within a glazed wooden frame.
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
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LOT 2022
Framed Watercolour Painting
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
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Framed Watercolour Painting
India, 20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
A portrait of a nobleman seated in a courtyard, smoking a pipe, line of text above; set in a reveal within a glazed wooden frame. 504 grams, 32 x 24.5 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art. -
Post Medieval Glazed Ceramic Tile Group
17th-18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Comprising two designs in relief including three horses in an enclosure and two animals, likely cats, fighting; coloured glazes. 1.3 kg total, 10 x 9 - 10.5 x 9.5 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.
The tile production increases in the second half of the sixteenth century and during the following centuries. The fragments discovered from various localities (pot-tiles, rectangular, triangular and trapezoidal panels, open-work crest tiles) were all produced in regional workshops, from the end of the 15th century or at the beginning of the 16th century. They all had diverse decorative motifs, mainly animals and geometrical or vegetal combinations, almost all of them singular finds for this study area. -
Decorated Black Glass Bead Necklace String
1st century A.D. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £13
Restrung; composed of opaque black glass beads graduated in size, mainly of tubular type and displaying twisted decoration. 26.4 grams, 64 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.