A ROYAL ARCHER
INDIA, PUNJAB HILLS, GULER, MID-18TH CENTURY
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Auction: 11 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
drawing on paper with use of colours and gold, takri inscription at top, orange border, depicting a portrait of a royal archer standing facing left holding a bow and arrow, wearing an orange and gold turban decorated with an aigrette and an orange jama tied with a patka
Dimensions
Sight size 11cm x 8cm
Footnote
Although of different subjects, for comparison see: W.G.Archer, Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, Vol. I , p.154, no. 28 and Vol. II., p.104, no. 28, and; W.G Archer, Visions of Courtly India, 1976, no. 22, and; B.N. Goswamy and E. Fischer, Pahari Masters, Court Painters of Northern India, Zurich, pp. 286-300.