AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF THE EMPEROR AKBAR HAWKING

Date Created: 22 May 2019

Author: Unknown artist

Source: The Internet

Owner: Christies

Location: UK

  • India
  • Iran
  • Pakistan
  • Hawk
  • Painting
  • 19th Century
  • Hunting
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AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF THE EMPEROR AKBAR HAWKING

MUGHAL DELHI, INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY.

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, his head turned to the viewer, richly attired with a bejewelled turban and white tunic, bearing a tulwar and a katar, his falcon perched on his right arm fitted with a falconry glove, the rein of his dapple gray horse in the left hand, in floral margins with red and black rules, laid down on gold-speckled card
16 x 10 ½in. (40.6 x 26.8cm.)

Price realised - GBP 2,500

Estimate - GBP 2,500 - GBP 3,500

 

 

Sale 12282. Arts & Textiles of the Islamic & Indian Worlds

 

London, South Kensington.  22 April 2016

 

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