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ATTRIBUTED TO RAM DAS, PROBABLY DELHI, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1800
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A ROYAL ENCAMPMENT
ATTRIBUTED TO RAM DAS, PROBABLY DELHI, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1800
Transparent pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, depicting a nimbate ruler surrounded by his attendants, the royal tent behind them, a crowd of people preparing and serving food, a landscape in the background, inscribed 'raqam-e Ram Das' in the lower left hand side corner, laid down on gilt cardboard margins between blue borders with gold floral scrollwork, the margins with four cusped medallions, each with a gold rosette on blue ground, the reverse with a painting of a lion seizing a buck, laid down on gold-speckled dark blue margins between pink borders
Painting 8 ½ x 5 ¼in. (21.6 x 13.4cm.); folio 16 ½ x 11 3/8in. (41.8 x 28.9cm.)
ATTRIBUTED TO RAM DAS, PROBABLY DELHI, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1800
Transparent pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, depicting a nimbate ruler surrounded by his attendants, the royal tent behind them, a crowd of people preparing and serving food, a landscape in the background, inscribed 'raqam-e Ram Das' in the lower left hand side corner, laid down on gilt cardboard margins between blue borders with gold floral scrollwork, the margins with four cusped medallions, each with a gold rosette on blue ground, the reverse with a painting of a lion seizing a buck, laid down on gold-speckled dark blue margins between pink borders
Painting 8 ½ x 5 ¼in. (21.6 x 13.4cm.); folio 16 ½ x 11 3/8in. (41.8 x 28.9cm.)
Provenance
Christie's, South Kensington, 1 October 2012, lot 100.
Brought to you by
Louise Broadhurst