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LOT 1883
Framed Watercolour Sketch by Amamy
PERSIA, 19TH CENTURY A.D.
8 5/8 x 6 1/2 in. (265 grams, 22 x 16.5 cm).
Of a man in a landscape filled with flowers and trees, striding triumphantly on his return from a hunt, carrying an ibex over one shoulder and a gun over the other, rolling clouds and birds in flight in the sky above, signed by Amamy to top right; mounted in a glazed wooden frame. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
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