Arts of the Islamic World & India
Arts of the Islamic World & India
A Spot-billed or Grey Pelican (Pelecanus philippensis), from the Impey Album, signed by Shaykh Zayn al-Din, India, Company School, Calcutta, dated 1780
Auction Closed
October 25, 04:59 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
pen and ink, watercolour on paper, inscribed at lower left with species name in black nasta'liq script "kakanbahar", further inscribed "In the Collection of Lady Impey at Calcutta / Painted by (in nasta'liq script, Zayn al-Din) Native of Patna 1780", numbered '105' in brown ink at upper left
image: 75.9 by 54cm.
sheet: 82.8 by 61cm.
Sir Elijah Impey (1732-1809) and Lady Impey (1749-1818).
His estate sale, Phillips, London, 21 May, 1810.
Colnaghi Oriental, London, 1984.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-94).
Sotheby’s, New York, The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 23 April 1996, lot 43.
His estate sale, Phillips, London, 21 May, 1810.
Colnaghi Oriental, London, 1984.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-94).
Sotheby’s, New York, The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 23 April 1996, lot 43.
Toby Falk and Gael Hayter, Birds in an Indian Garden, Michael Goedhuis, Ltd., (Colnaghi Oriental) and Mallet & Son (Antiques) Ltd., London, 1984, unpaginated.
Birds in an Indian Garden, Michael Goedhuis Ltd., (Colnaghi Oriental) and Mallet & Son (Antiques) Ltd., London, 12 June-14 July 1984.