Arts of the Islamic World & India
Arts of the Islamic World & India
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. MARK ZEBROWSKI (1944-99)
The Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah with Maharaja Raj Singh of Kishangarh and five other courtiers, attributed to Dalchand, India, Rajasthan, Kishangarh, circa 1730
Auction Closed
October 23, 01:24 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
gouache heightened with gold on paper, identification inscriptions in black devanagari script on gold ground above all the figures, the figure at lower left with further inscription in gold on his robe 'aag hajari(?) mansab', narrow gold border, black and red rules, buff margins, the reverse with further identification inscriptions in black nasta'liq script, edges slightly trimmed
painting: 31.8 by 23.8cm.
leaf: 36.9 by 29.7cm.
Christie’s London, Islamic, Indian and South-East Asian Manuscripts, Miniatures and Works of Art, 24 November 1987, lot 84
Dr. Mark Zebrowski, London, (1944-99)
Private Collection, London
Dr. Mark Zebrowski was an American historian of Islamic and Indian art who moved to London in the 1970s. He first visited India in 1967 as a member of the Peace Corps, and taught English at a school in Karimnagar, south-central India. This placement introduced him to the artistic heritage of the country, and he went on to study in Paris at the Musée Guimet and then at Harvard University. His ‘Deccani Painting’ thesis (1983) remains the standard reference for the subject forty years later. He wrote two further books, ‘Gold, Silver and Bronze from Mughal India’ (1997, another landmark work on the subject), and (with George Mitchell), ‘The Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates’ (1999).
M. Zebrowski, Gold, Silver & Bronze from Mughal India, London, 1997, pp. 72-73, pl.54
A. Jackson and A. Jaffer, Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts, London, 2009, p.42, no.28
M.C. Beach, E. Fischer, B.N. Goswamy (ed.), Masters of Indian Painting, 1650-1900, Zurich, 2011, p.564, no.10, illus. on p.575, fig.10
H. Pauwels, Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century India – Poetry and Paintings from Kishangarh, Studies in Asian Art and Culture, Vol.4, Berlin, 2015, p.66, plate 1
Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 10 October 2009 – 17 January 2010; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 12 February - 23 May 2010