Bhils Hunting, India, Provincial Mughal, Awadh, 18th century
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
gouache heightened with gold on paper, gold border with red and black rules, gold speckled margins, verso with 8 lines of an unidentified hadith on Moses in white naskh reserved on a green ground, gold border, salmon pink stained margins, accompanied by two cards with handwritten inscriptions in English giving description and references
painting: 20 by 27.8cm.
leaf: 38 by 47cm.
Edmund Hunt Dring (1863-1928) of Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
Edmund Maxwell Dring (1906-90) of Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
Thence by descent
The Bhils are a desert tribe from Rajasthan and Central India and were a popular subject with Mughal painters. The same subject can be found in the Princeton University Art Museum (inv.2016-51); the Metropolitan Museum of Art (30.95.174.20); the Collection of the Fondation Custodia, Paris (see Sven Gahlin, The Courts of India, Netherlands, 1991, no.50. and Leach 1995, p.692, fig.6.331).
This and the following folio belonged to Edmund Hunt Dring (1863-1928) who lived and worked in Calcutta from 1885-93 and was employed by Thacker, Spink & Co. On his return to England in 1893 Dring joined Bernard Quaritch Ltd., the famous antiquarian book dealers, where he became Managing Director.
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