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LOT 1775
Watercolour Painting Group
INDIA, 19TH CENTURY A.D.
5 3/4 x 4 in. (5 grams, 14.8 x 10.3 cm).
Three bifacial manuscript pages, each with recto with multiple lines of text, verso with watercolour scene with panel of text above and below, including children being instructed in martial arts in a courtyard, riders playing Chovgan, and a warrior wearing a lion skin attacking a demon in a cave, whilst his horse looks on from above. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
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Framed Watercolour Painting with Male Figures Engaged in Conversation
Persia, 20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
With extensive use of liquid gold; polychrome painted scene of three male figures within a building engaged in conversation; three passers-by outside with faces raised to another figure on the roof; panels of calligraphic nastaliq text above and below; mounted in a glazed wooden frame. 689 grams, 37 x 26.5 cm
Very fine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art. -
Post Medieval Silver Acme Scout and Bosun's Whistle
19th-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £42
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From an Essex, UK, collection. Ex property of an Essex gentleman. From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Framed Watercolour Painting
India, early 20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Depicting a nobleman standing in a landscape, holding and admiring a jewel; set in a reveal within a glazed wooden frame. 552 grams, 27.5 x 20 cm
Fine condition, some worm holes.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
