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Lot 236
The wait

India, 18th century

Gold-highlighted gouache on strong cardboard mounted as an album page with gold scroll border. On verso, seventeen calligraphic lines in shikasté...
Lot 237
* Lotus conversation

India, Lucknow, 18th century

Gold-highlighted gouache on strong cardboard mounted as an album page, with gold scrolling floral border on a blue background. Margins speckled with...
Lot 238
A set of four shahnameh pages

India, first half of the 18th century

Set of 4 miniatures painted in gouache with gold highlights on paper, from a single Shahanameh manuscript. Miniature size: from 16.5 x 9 to 11 x 17 cm...
Lot 239
Ragamala scene, Rajah and his servants

India, Malwa circa 1700

Gouache on an album page depicting a palace in which a throned prince stands, fanned with a "chauri" by a servant. Another hands him a bowl of flowers...
Lot 240
Women in the palace

Mughal India, 18th century

Album page with a gouache painting of a noble lady on a palace terrace. She is accompanied by two servants, one seated at her side, the other holding...
Lot 241
The visit to the shaykh

India, 18th century

Miniature painted in gouache, mounted on an album page framed with flowery foliage, depicting three kneeling men, attentive to the master's words...
Lot 243
Mughal-style agate bowl

India, circa 1900

Of poly-lobed form, the handle with carved and engraved peacock decoration, the heel engraved with a lotus flower in full bloom. Size: 3.5 x 14 cm A...
Lot 244
* Spoon in veined white jade

Mughal India, 18th-19th century

faceted handle, lotus bud-shaped tip, striated decoration on reverse of spoon, with silver mounting. L. 20 cm. Provenance: This lot is sold as a...
Lot 245
* Libation cup

North India, 20th century

With melon-ribbed body, in jade inlaid with "kundan" set stones, decorated with flowers, including bowl, lid, and saucer. Dim.: bowl and lid: 6.5 x 6...
Lot 246
Large bowl with hunting scenes

Lucknow or Calcutta, India, circa 1890

In repoussé and chased silver on an amati ground, deep and hollow, resting on a wide pedestal, with serrated edges, decorated with scenes of lion...
Lot 247
* Kashkul or Dervish Sebille

India, Probably Deccan, 17th century

In chased red copper, embellished with two dragon heads in bearing rings. The body is decorated with poetic inscriptions in "nasta'liq" script and...
Lot 249
* Portrait of Nawab Kamkar Khan

India, late 18th - early 19th century

Album page featuring a gouache portrait of a dignitary on the front and a European engraving on the back. Miniature size: 14.5 x 9 cm (page size: 33.5...
Lot 250
* Two Surahi from Sialkhot

India, Punjab region, late 19th century

Pyriform decanters on ring heel, in damascened steel profusely inlaid with gold in deep koftgari or "Teh Nashan", with plant interlacing forming...
Lot 251
Muharram procession flag ends

India, 19th-20th century

One in ferrous alloy, in the shape of an openwork mandorla shouldered by two dragons, with complex calligraphic decoration. The second in brass...
Lot 252
Indian silverware set

North India (?), 2nd half 19th century

Composed of a four-legged tray with two handles, decorated with plant scrolls, in silver with repoussé decoration, and a silver-plated sprinkler...
Lot 253
Mughal pot

India, probably Deccan, circa 1800

In silver and vermeil, decorated with lobes adorned with chased palmettes. The counter-curved handle with zoomorphic ends (makara and parakeet head)...
Lot 254
Sprinkler

India, 19th century

In silver and silver-gilt, the screwed neck takes the form of a winged female deity (peri), the flattened pear-shaped body decorated on each side with...
Lot 256
Prince and courtesans

India, Rajasthan, late 19th century

Gouache on paper Signed lower right in gold lettering in Devanagari or Urdu. Dim. of miniature: 26 x 17 cm (Page: 36 x 27 cm) Prince and courtesans...
Lot 257
Erotic scene in a palace garden

India, Murshidabad, circa 1800

Gouache on album page depicting the embrace of two lovers on a white floral carpet. Around them, a vast garden planted with fruit trees and cypresses...
Lot 257.2
Antelope hunting

India, Jaipur, circa 1800

Gouache on paper depicting a noble rider armed with a spear piercing a black-coated antelope on a vast plain against a cloudy horizon. Good condition...
Lot 260
Jali - Mughal screen

North India, late 18th century - early 19th century

Rectangular, carved and openworked, with a large iris plant in full bloom in the center, framed by two smaller ones. Size: 58 x 73 cm This elegant...
Lot 261
Jali - Lotus screen

Mughal India, Deccan, circa 1800

Limestone architectural bas-relief with remains of white and blue pigments. It features a lotus bouquet framed by a checkerboard and columns. On the...
Lot 261.2
Aftabé" ewer

North India or Deccan, 16th-17th century

With a pear-shaped body on a pedestal, shouldered by a long spout and a zoomorphic handle connecting to a domed lid and grip knob. In gilded brass...
Lot 262
Krishna visiting the gopis

India, Pahari school, late 18th century

Gouache painting depicting noble courtesans in discussion in the various pavilions of a palace. In the palace courtyard, Krishna is leaning on a cane...
Lot 263
The lover leaving his beloved

India, late 18th century

Album page painted in gouache depicting a drowsy Radha in a palace courtyard under an architectural canopy lit by a rising sun, visited by Krishna...
Lot 264
ARCHER (W. G.).

Peinture indienne - Indian miniatures. Color plates in collaboration with Madanjeet Singh. Greenwich, New York Graphic Society, [1960].

In-folio, publisher's blue cloth boards. 100 illustrations, 50 in color. Indian Painting. Mughal and Rajput and a Sultanate manuscript. London, P & D...
Lot 265
Anglo-Indian army encampment

Bengal, 19th century

Gouache on paper Dim. 27 x 15.5 cm This atypical painting provides realistic details of life in an Anglo-Indian army camp in the mid-19th century. In...
Lot 270
Indian emperor Jahangir attacked by a lion

India, Delhi, Mughal school, 19th century

Miniature painted in gouache and mounted on an album page with six "nasta'liq" cartouches. The scene depicts an elephant mounted by a mahout holding...
Lot 271
Prince receiving a lady at night

Mughal India, Awadh, Lucknow, circa 1830

Polychrome gouache on paper. Size: 19 x 30 cm Prince receiving a lady at night Mughal India, Awadh, Lucknow, circa 1830 Gouache in polychrome on paper...
Lot 275
Pair of gouaches on paper India or Rajhastan

Eastern India, Patna or Murshidabad, circa 1830

Two gouaches on mica, depicting a Muharram procession and a view of the great bull in the temple at Tanjore. Condition: good. framed under glass 20 x...

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