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A PRINCESS AT HER MORNING BATH A PRINCESS ENJOYING PAN ON A TERRACE
ATTRIBUTED TO HAR JAIMAL, NURPUR, CIRCA 1820 GULER, 1790-1800
Opaque watercolor on paper; verso and fly sheet inscribed with Opaque watercolor and gold on paper.
devanagari Image: 7 x 7 3/8 in. (18.3 x 20.2 cm);
Image: 7 x 4 1/4 in. (18.3 x 11.1 cm); Folio: 8 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (18.3 x 20.2 cm)
Folio: 10 1/8 x 6 7/8 in. (25.9 x 17.2 cm)
$4,000 - 6,000
$5,000 - 7,000
Seated on an open white marble terrace before a blossoming tree
Compare with a work signed by the artist Har Jaimal in Archer, Visions and flanking cypresses, the princess strikes a ruler’s pose. She wears
of Courtly India, Washington, 1976, no.74. Both works feature larger a courtly turban and sits on a large throne in a relaxed manner with
than usual lotuses and distant landscapes. one knee raised. Compare four pages with similar female figures and
vegetation published in Archer, Indian Paintings in the Punjab Hills,
Provenance London, 1973, p.118, nos.65-8.
Christie’s, London, 6 July 1978, lot 64
Dr. Alec Simpson Collection, New Jersey Provenance
Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1985

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