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SIX BOTANICAL STUDIES THE INTERIOR OF THE TAJ MAHAL
Company School, Calcutta, 19th century Company School, Delhi or Agra, circa 1805
Opaque watercolor on paper. Watercolour on paper; embellished with panels of calligraphy in thuluth and
Irregular: 19 x 15 in. (48.3 x 38.1 cm) approx. naskh scripts in black ink; English and nasta’liq inscriptions at bottom.
$10,000 - 15,000 27 x 19 in. (68.6 x 48.4 cm)
$8,000 - 12,000
For related examples and discussion of the type, see, Hobhouse &
Colnaghi, Fifty-one flowers: Botanical Watercolours from Bengal, May A faint pencil inscription in English erroneously identifies the scene as
2006, nos. 5, 6, 16, 18, 21, 25, 31, 34. the Inside of the Feranghi Mahal. The nasta liq inscription along the
bottom reads Plan of the interior of the holy tomb.
Provenance
Christie’s, South Kensington, 29 April 2005, lot 616 Compare with another version formerly in the Crawford Collection
Private Collection, Texas published in Pal et al. (eds.), Romance of the Taj Mahal, Los
Angeles, 1989, p.64, no.52; and another sold Sotheby’s, London,
6 April 2011, lot 253.

Provenance
Bonhams, London, 12 Oct 2006, lot 310
Private Collection, Texas

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