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9/2/2020 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art | Sotheby's

Indian, Hi ma layan & Southeast Asian Works of Art
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 12:00 PM EDT

Lot 368

A NAWAB AND HIS RETAINERS IN PR OCESSION, INDIA , MURSHIDABAD, CIRCA 1760-1770
Estimate: 50,000 - 70,000 USD

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF CLARK & JOAN WORSWICK
A NAWAB AND HIS RETAINERS IN PROCESSION
INDIA, MURSHIDABAD, CIRCA 1760-1770

Opaque watercolor on paper heightened with gold

image: 10 ⅛ by 13 ⅛ in. (25.7 by 33.3 cm)

folio: 10 ¾ by 13 in. (27.31 by 33 cm), unframed

Provenance
Gifted by Stuart Cary Welch, circa 1966

Catalogue Note
This rare and remarkable painting depicts a stately procession slowly making its way across a landscape bearing timeless
vignettes of rural Bengal, rendered in infinite detail.

In the foreground farmers plow their fields and tend their crop while herds of cows and goats graze serenely. The procession itself
is seen at the center of the picture, moving from left to right in a dignified cadence with a nawab on a canopied elephant
accompanied by riders on horseback, soldiers on foot, noblemen on caparisoned elephants and horseback and even a pair of
camels at the front of the train. At the center is a cloth covered litter no doubt bearing a precious cargo of noble ladies, sheltered
from prying eyes. The palanquin is surrounded by a throng of attendant figures bearing swords and shields and dressed in fine

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