Page 104 - Indian, Himalaya and Asian Art Bonhams Setp 2015

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CHANDRA RIDING HIS CHARIOT AN ILLUSTRATION FROM AN UNIDENTIFIED SERIES
Rajasthan or Deccan, mid-18th century Malwa, 17th century

Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper; against a rich blue Opaque watercolor on paper; a ruler seated outside an empty bed
background with silver vines, antelopes pull his chariot across an chamber; the reverse with collection stamp and single line devanagari
abbreviated mountain landscape; “Chandra” written in devanagari below. inscription.
7 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. (19.1 x 15 cm) 8 x 5 3/4 in. (20.3 x 14.6 cm)
$1,500 - 2,500 $2,000 - 3,000

Provenance Compare to another page from a closely related unidentified set in the
Collection of Dr and Mrs Robert Dickes Brooklyn Museum of Art, see Poster, Realms of Heroism, Brooklyn, 1994,
Acquired from Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 31 January 1973 p. 189, no. 144 and Sotheby’s, New York, 17 March 2015, lot 1126.
Thence by descent
Provenance
102 | BONHAMS Tasvir Khan, Datia
Sotheby’s, New York, 17 June 1993, lot 399