Arts of the Islamic World & India
Arts of the Islamic World & India
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
gouache heightened with gold on paper, inscribed in black ink at upper left 'Ali Adilsjah de Jonge Zone van / den hier after volgenden' (Ali Adil Shah the young son of the one following hereafter)
leaf: 15.8 by 11cm.
Ex-collection Dr. Stephan von Licht, Vienna (1860-1932)
His estate sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 8-9 December 1932, lot 120
Private Collection, Austria
This portrait of Sultan Muhammad 'Adil Shah of Bijapur is likely to have been painted as part of a series of portraits of princely rulers. The inscription suggests that the portraits would have been assembled for a European patron. There is a closely comparable portrait of Muhammad 'Adil Shah dated to circa 1680 bearing a very similar inscription, in an album which contains twenty-six paintings of Indian princes, now in the collection of the British Museum, London (acc. no.1974,0617,0.11.14).
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