Lot 46

A DETACHED ALBUM PAGE: EMPEROR JAHANGIR AT A JHAROKHA WINDOW ‡
INDIA, FAIZABAD OR LUCKNOW, LATE 18TH CENTURY






Auction: 10 December 2025 from 14:00 GMT
Description
gouache on paper heightened in gold, with blue, red and gold margin lines, floral and gold inner borders, mounted on to an 18th century album page with narrow navy blue and gold floral border with a gold sprinkled outer border, the emperor depicted in profile facing right, one hand resting over the window sill, wearing two strands of pearls, emeralds and rubies, his typical green turban, an identifying inscription-filled cartouche within the outer border, mounted, glazed and framed
Dimensions
27.5cm x 19.5cm
Provenance
Swiss private collection; Koller, 1981, Sale A46, Lot 82.
Koller Auktionshaus, Zurich, 4 June 2015.
The collection of a German enthusiast.
Footnote
Inscriptions:
‘tasvir-i jahangir padshah’, depiction of Emperor Jahangir
This trimmed-down album page shares the same characteristics as the following lot, with the inner and outer borders and the Persian script. It is possible that it originates from the same album. Unlike the following painting, this one includes an inner border of floral and gold scrolling vines, which also features on another painting in the Chester Beatty Library attributed to Faizabad, circa 1770 (L. Leach, Mughal and Other Indian Paintings, Vol. II, 1995, no. 6.240, p. 663).





