A portrait of a dandy, Bundi, circa 1750

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

gouache with gold on paper

gouache with gold on paper, mounted on an album leaf with gold-flecked cream borders; reverse with a page of nasta'liq text in black ink on cream paper with interlinear gold

Catalogue Note

The page of text on the reverse includes extracts from the poetry of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi and references to the eleventh-century Sufi master and teacher, Abu Sa'id Abul-Khayr.