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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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Framed Indian Watercolour Painting with Courtly Scene
19th-early 20th century A.D.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £40
A rectangular manuscript page depicting a courtly scene with a nobleman embracing a female courtier while others luxuriate around them, in a landscape; calligraphic text panels above and below; mounted in a glazed wooden frame. 710 grams, 34 x 26 cm
Very fine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art. -
Antique Bronze Figure of Hanuman
India, 18th-19th century A.D.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Modelled in the round standing on a tiered base, his tail encircling the head and shoulders. 71.5 grams, 68 mm
Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. -
Antique Bronze Shiva as Nataraja
India, late 19th-early 20th century A.D.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Modelled in the round, Shiva dancing on Apasmara Purusha within a mandorla, on an oval lotus-moulded base. 1.02 kg, 23 cm
Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.
