Indian & Southeast Asian Art

16 September 2008

  • A large gray schist figure of a standing Buddha
  • A highly important figure of Shiva Nataraja
  • Nainsukh of Guler - Raja Balwant Dev Singh on a Lion Shikaar
  • Nidha Mal - A folio from the Polier Album: Portrait of Kalyan Singh, son of Shitab Rai
  • A gilt bronze figure of Vajadahra
  • A Sandstone figure of Vishnu
Nidha Mal - A folio from the Polier Album: Portrait of Kalyan Singh, son of Shitab Rai
Christie’s New York sale of Indian & Southeast Asian art features paintings, textiles and sculpture from an expansive geographical range that extends from Afghanistan to Indonesia and from the Himalayas to Sri Lanka. Many of these objects emerge from Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain contexts, as well as traditions and cultures dating from the Indus Valley period (circa 3300 B.C.) to the mid-1900s.
Sale 2024, Lot 474
Nidha Mal
A folio from the Polier Album:
Portrait of Kalyan Singh, son of Shitab Rai
Signed in Urdu, ‘The work of Mal,’ at middle left
Annotated in French below,
‘50. Portrait de Calyan Sing fils de Shitab Roy’
India, Oudh, circa 1750
6 3/8 x 5 3/8 in. (16.2 x 13.7 cm.), image
14 x 9 7/8 in. (35.6 x 25.1 cm.), folio
Estimate: $150,000-200,000

Sandhya Jain Patel, Specialist, Indian & Southeast Asia Art, New York