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PROPERTY FROM THE LANIER COLLECTION

SAWANT SINGH AND BANI THANI
ATTRIBUTED TO NIHAL CHAND
India, Rajasthan, Kishangarh, circa 1750

Black ink and chalk on paper
image: 9¼ by 8½ in. (22.8 by 20.3 cm)

PROVENANCE
Sam Fogg Ltd., London
Acquired circa 1999
The poet Maharaja Sawant Singh of Kishangarh o ers a small cup of
intoxicating liquor, poured from his ask, to his consort Bani Thani.
She holds a small plate containing a single round fruit, as she demurely
parts her veil. An empty bed in the nearby pavilion visible through an
open window.

$ 2,500-3,500

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PROPERTY FROM THE LANIER COLLECTION

FOUR HANDMAIDENS
India, Rajasthan, Alwar or Jaipur, second half of the
18th century

Ink and black chalk with bodycolor on paper
image: 12¼ by 4¾ in. (30.5 by 10.1 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired 1990’s
Four handmaidens stand in formal attendance holding a chowrie and
other objects before an architectural backdrop of deeply scalloped
arches and overlapping columns and doorways.

$ 2,000-3,000