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LOT 2674
Indian Framed Watercolour Painting
EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
13 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (683 grams, 34.6 x 25.2 cm).
Showing a courtly tea-ceremony scene, a female attendant kneeling before a couple seated on a carpet and offering a cup, the male holding a cup in his outstretched hand while having his other arm draped around the shoulder of his female companion; another kneeling female on the foreground holding a tray of fruit, flowers on the foreground and an inscription on the upper left-hand corner; set in glazed wooden frame.
ProvenancePrivate collection, UK.
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LOT 2674
Indian Framed Watercolour Painting
Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)
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Framed Indian Watercolour Manuscript Leaf
19th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
A watercolour painting depicting a female figure seated against a cushion in a courtyard, a shrine(?) before her, a female attendant approaching; polychrome borders and panel of text above; mounted in a reveal and a glazed wooden frame. 806 grams, 36 x 28.5 cm
Fair condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art. -
Indian Bronze Figural Opium Pipe
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
With separate tapering stem curved at the end and decorated with repoussé scrolls, bowl formed as a deity(?) standing on one leg grasping a leaf-shaped dagger in his right hand, with demonic face above his own with benign expression. 284 grams, 18cm
Fine condition.
Ex property of a Guernsey collector; acquired from Martel Maides, St. Peter Port, Guernsey; formerly acquired in the UK in the early 1990s. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Indian Framed Watercolour Painting
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
A rare watercolour painting showing a European woman seated in a bed against a cushion framed by an open window, wearing a hat and a dress pulled down at the chest exposing her breasts; broad red border; mounted in a glazed wooden frame. 396 grams, 26 x 19 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
