Formal landscape in gold with trees, flowers and animals, including a lion springing on a buffalo.
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Formal landscape of trees and flowers with birds, deer, and a lion springing upon a buffalo. Mughal, c.1635-40. Guard page, executed in gold. 325 by 235 mm.
A syce holding a chestnut Arab stallion, ‘Arthur’. By a Calcutta artist, c.1850. Inscribed on back in pencil: ‘Picture of my old Charger, ‘Arthur,’ & Nuchal Syce. 1828. J.B.’ Water-colour, heightened with white; 13.25 by 17.25 ins. Presented by Mr Rodney Searight, 1971. Note: The loo...
Fanciful scene with a banyan tree covered in monkeys on the banks of a river and outside the walls of a city
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Fanciful scene with a banyan tree covered in monkeys on the banks of a river and outside the walls of a city. The landscape abounds with animals and birds as well as men and women, while a male figure drives in a pony carriage formed from a lion and a peacock. By a Lucknow artist, c.1820. Ins...
The musk-rat raja holding court among his subjects, with a tame cat being taunted
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The musk-rat raja holding court. A musk-rat sits on a throne, holding a hookah, a pennant above him. Below him, another musk-rat, also holding a pennant, rides on a tame cat. Two other musk-rats appear to taunt the cat. Note: Illustration of a proverb perhaps on the lines of ‘the tables turn...