Lot 459

MUGHAL STANDING PORTRAIT OF A PRINCE
MID 18TH CENTURY

Auction: 4 July 2018 at 11:00 BST
£875
Description
opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting the full profile of a Mughal prince facing right, wearing floral robes and holding a flower in his right hand, within a border of scrolling gilt foliage, in a later glazed frame with paper label verso
Dimensions
18.5cm x 13cm
Footnote
Provenance:
A. A. Bailey, Sloane Gallery
Private London Collection
Note: Similar profiles of princes are included in the 'Davis Album', an illustrated manuscript thought to originate from Iran, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and bequeathed by the American lawyer and traveller, Theodore M. Davis.
