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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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Ethiopian Manuscript Page for Miracle of the Virgin Mary
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Vellum leaf with pricked guidelines for placement of two columns of red-ink and black-ink text in Ge'ez script with red detailing; recto with two columns of text above a polychrome painted miniature showing a nimbate Mary beside a recumbent bearded figure among buildings with a winged angel above; verso with twenty-two lines of text in two columns. 89 grams, 35.5 x 30 cm
Previously in the David Buxton collection (1910-2003), until the late 1990s.
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Stone Mount Group with Rubies
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
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Property of a South West London gentleman. -
Framed Watercolour Painting
Persia, 20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Depicting a series of lavish tents erected in a green landscape, populated by a prince and men in attendance of a punishment, dark blue arboreal border, Indian workmanship; mounted in a reveal and a glazed wooden frame. 915 grams, 37.5 x 30 cm
Very fine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
