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Two goatherds leading two rams across a landscape, Mughal India, late 16th century gouache on...
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Two goatherds leading two rams across a landscape,
Mughal India, late 16th century
gouache on paper, laid down on an album page with an inner border with floral motifs in gold, the outer border with stencilled stylised floral motifs in white on a blue ground, in mount
24.3 x 15.3 cm.
Provenance: From the Collection of Francis Golding (1944-2013)
The interesting blue stencilled border on the album page of this Mughal miniature suggests a Herati influence of circa 1600. A collection of poems by Hafiz of Shiraz (d. circa 1390) commissioned by the Shamlu family, governors of Herat, dated to around 1600, bears similar coloured stencilled borders. This volume later passed to the Oudh Royal Library, Lucknow and was subsequently presented by Lord Teignmouth to either George III or George IV. See Muhammad Isa Waley, Islamic Manuscripts in the British Royal Collection: a Concise Catalogue, Leiden 1994, RCIN 1005017.
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