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LOT 2734
Indian Miniature Framed Watercolour Painting with Courtly Tea Ceremony
EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
13 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (685 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 in the foreground holding a tray of fruit, flowers in the foreground and an inscription in the upper left-hand corner; set in a glazed wooden frame.
ProvenancePrivate collection, London, UK.
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LOT 2734
Indian Miniature Framed Watercolour Painting with Courtly Tea Ceremony
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£50 (EUR 58; USD 68) +BP*
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Opening Bid: £100
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Private collection, London, UK. -
Antique Bronze Figure of Ganesh Seated
India, 18th century A.D.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Modelled in the round on a tiered base with openwork mandorla to the rear. 62.3 grams, 45 mm
Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. -
Early Indian Bronze Figure of Ganesh
Late Chola Period, 13th century A.D. or laterEstimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
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From a Canadian collection, previously acquired from an antiques dealer in Chor Bazar, Mumbai, India. Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. Accompanied by a previous catalogue information slip.
