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LOT 1017
Estimate
GBP (£) 1,000 - 1,500
EUR (€) 1,190 - 1,780
USD ($) 1,290 - 1,930
INDIAN PAINTING OF TIPU SULTAN
20TH CENTURY AD
31 3/4" (4.7 kg, 81 cm including frame).
20TH CENTURY AD
31 3/4" (4.7 kg, 81 cm including frame).
A framed portrait on fabric depicting Tipu Sultan (20 November 1750 - 4 May 1799) in a fine robe, seated on a couch with string of pearls to the chest and sword on a baldric; signed Mahnder Singh, after the portrait of Tipu Sultan once owned by Richard Colley Wellsley, now in the British Library.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired on the London art market in the early 1990s.
