AN ALBUM PAGE: HUMAYUN AT A JAROKHA WINDOW AND SHAH JAHAN AT OLD AGE
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL INDIA, MID-18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Shah Jahan facing left, haloed, sitting on his throne, leaning against a large bolster under a parasol, richly adorned and attired with a pink jama with gold floral lattice tied with an intricate sash, the right hand holding a sarpech, the left a tulwar, between pink and blue margins with foliated and floriated gold patterns, laid out on card with dense floral lattice; Humayun facing right, reclining on a bolster at a window adorned with intricate textiles, wearing an intricate turban with circular sarpech, wearing green and red jama and a large pearl necklace, holding a blunderbuss, between green margins with gold floral lattice, with white and gold rules, laid on card with gold floral lattice
Painting (Shah Jahan) 7¼ x 4¼in. (18 x 10.4cm.); folio 13 x 10¾in. (32.5 x 27.4cm.)

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