RAJA SURAJ MAL (1613-1618) OF NURPUR HOLDING A HAWK
INDIA, PUNJAB HILLS, NURPUR, CIRCA 1770-80
£43,951
Auction: Indian Paintings from the Collection of William & Mildred Archer | Lots 84 to 152 | 12 June at 10am
Description
gouache and gold on card, dark blue border, depicting Raj Suraj Mal in an orange jama, wearing a white turban with gold aigret and black plume, draped in jewels, his left hand leaning on a green window sill whilst his right hand holds the breast of a white hawk looking up at him, crimson red background, inscribed on verso in Takri and in English ‘Sri Rana Kalas’, mounted, glazed and framed
Dimensions
Folio: 22.4cm x 17.2cm (8 7/8in x 6 7/8in).
Provenance
Acquired before 1948.
Footnote
Exhibited:
Circulated by the Smithsonian Institute, USA, in 1963-1964, and exhibited in Ohio, Indianapolis, Richmond, New Hampshire and Ottawa.
Wildenstein Gallery, London, 26 May to 19 June 1965.
Loan to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, from 1994 to 2004, no. 8.
Literature:
W. G. Archer, Indian Miniatures from the Collection of Mildred and W. G. Archer, Exhibition Catalogue, Washington, 1963, pl. 45 (illustrated).
W. G. Archer,
Visions of Courtly India, The Archer Collection of Pahari Miniatures, Exhibition Catalogue, Washington, 1976, no. 76 (illustrated).