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INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTINGS
1001
1001
A NOBLEMAN AND ATTENDANTS WITH A The present and following six lots (1001 - 1007) were once part
YOGI of the collection of Mr. Gordon H. Mattison, a former Foreign
India, Kangra, circa 1820 Service o$ cer with deep interest and experience in Middle
Eastern a% airs. Born in Washington in 1915, Mr. Mattison grew
Opaque watercolor on paper heightened with gold up in India where his father was a missionary. He began his
image: 9⅛ by 7¼ in. (23.2 by 18.4 cm)
career in the US Foreign Service in 1937. He traveled widely in
folio: 11¾ by 10 in. (29.8 by 25.4 cm) unframed
the Middle East - to Iraq and Syria - and by the late 1940s was
Chief of the State Department’s Division of Near Eastern and
PROVENANCE
South Asian A% airs. In the 1950s Mr. Mattison was posted in
Collection of Mr. Gordon H. Mattison, Maryland
US Embassies in Cairo and Tehran. He capped his career with
postings as US Consul General in Calcutta and Kathmandu,
Nepal. He passed away in 1999 at the age of 84.
$ 6,000-8,000
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