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309 An attendant waves a large morchal (peacock-feathered fan)
as a symbol of royal authority. Against a at light-brown
PROPERTY FROM THE LANIER COLLECTION background with a band of white and blue sky above. Lines of
birds dot the sky.
MAHARAJA SIDH SEN OF MANDI AND AN
ATTENDANT A companion example with the same attendant but Sidh Sen
India, Pahari, Mandi, circa 1750 depicted as a younger ruler is in the collection of the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, accession no. 1999.127.10. For
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper another painting of Sidh Sen as an older man accompanied by
image: 10 by 6¼ in. (25.4 by 15.8 cm) the same morchal-bearer in the Edwin Binney III Collection, see
folio: 11½ by 7¾ in. (27.9 by 17.7 cm) Edwin Binney III, Rajput Miniatures from the Collection of Edwin
Binney 3rd, Portland, 1968, p. 89, cat 67.
PROVENANCE
$ 6,000-8,000
Douglas McDougal Collection
The Paul F. Walter Collection
Sotheby’s New York, November 14, 2002, lot 69

Maharaja Sidh Sen of Mandi (r. 1684-1727) in older age -
dressed in a brilliant scarlet full-length jama and a matching
stylized pagri (cap) - seated against a blue bolster on a oral
carpet. He holds his sheathed ceremonial sword by the hilt.

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