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A LARGE ALBUM PAGE: A DECCANI PRINCE RIDING AN ELEPHANT AND SHAH JAHAN AT OLD AGE RIDING AN ELEPHANT
DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY; PROVINCIAL MUGHAL INDIA, MID-18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments and gold on paper, one side depicting a young Deccani prince riding an elephant in a howdah, an attendant behind him, a mahout driving him with an ankus, the prince's retinue around, each turbanned and wearing white jamas, one carrying a parasol inscribed in gold in nasta'liq script, others carrying emblems and standards, four camels following the procession; the reverse with Shah Jahan at old age seated in a howdah carried by an elephant, followed by princes on elephants, attendants around carrying flares, on green ground, each painting extended at top, laid down between pink and blue borders with gold and polychrome illuminated margins
Each painting 10½x 11¼in. (26.8 x 28.5cm.); page 13½ x 12⅞in. (34.3 x 32.7cm.)
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