Lot 68
A LADY HOLDING A FLOWER AND A CHAURI ‡
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 09 December 2026 from 14:00 GMT
Description
gouache on paper heightened in gold, laid down on a speckled gold album page to the front, the image depicting a lady wearing a green and orange robe with gold detailing, facing to the right holding a small flower in her left hand and a chauri in her right hand, standing on tufts of grass, all against a soft muted green background, with brown and black borders with gold meandering vegetal motifs, black, red and blue margin lines, verso with a couplet written in nasta'liq in black ink, with gold floral borders, the album page with repeat pink peonies on a green ground
Dimensions
folio 28.3cm x 20.5cm, image 13.7cm x 7.1cm
Provenance
Formerly private collection, Palm Springs, Hope Strickland.
Private American collection.
Footnote
The couplet is from Jalal al-Din Rumi’s Mathnavi:
“O God, give the prodigal a reward,
And O God give the miserly a loss.”