CLASSICAL INDIAN ART | LIVE AUCTION, MUMBAI (09 MARCH 2017)

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PORTRAIT OF MOHAMMAD SHAH
KISHANGARH, DATED VS 1803 =1746 AD
Inscribed and dated in Nagari and Persian on the reverse
Gouache on paper heightened with gold
Image: 10.5 x 6.25 in (27.1 x 16.5 cm)
Folio: 10.75 x 6.75 in (27.8 x 17.4 cm)
Rs 6,00,000 ‒ 8,00,000
$ 8,960 - 11,945
NON‒EXPORTABLE REGISTERED ANTIQUITY
PROVENANCE
The Motichand Khajanchi Collection
For another portrait of the same ruler at a younger age,
refer to R K Tandan, Indian Miniature Painting 16th through
19th Centuries, Bangalore: Natesan Publishers, 1982, fig. 60.
Detail of inscriptions on reverse
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MAHARAJA KARAN SINGH OF BIKANER
BIKANER, CIRCA 1700
Inscribed in Nagari ‘Maharaja Sri Karan Singhji kaam usta
ro...’ on the reverse
Gouache on paper heightened with gold
Image: 2.75 x 2.25 in (7.5 x 5.8 cm)
Folio: 7.5 x 5 in (19.2 x 13.2 cm)
Rs 6,00,000 ‒ 8,00,000
$ 8,960 - 11,945
NON‒EXPORTABLE REGISTERED ANTIQUITY
PROVENANCE
The Motichand Khajanchi Collection
For another closely related portrait of Maharaja Karan
Singh, see B N Goswamy and Usha Bhatia, Painted Visions:
The Goenka Collection of Indian Paintings, New Delhi: Lalit
Kala Akademi, 1999, p. 142, pl. 111.
Detail of inscription on reverse