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On his head is a flat, normally wear some kind of long gown with a Gahlin , no. Here additionally her necklaces, bracelets Losty and Roy , pp. Her costume requires a considerable Provenance in India as can be seen in the illustrations to J. The The Jesuit sources reveal that Akbar was costume worn by some of the men in Goa in the captivated by the icons of the Virgin and Child, Itinerario others stuff their loose trousers into and ordered his artists to make copies Brand and boots exactly corresponds to that in the present Lowry , pp.

An early Mughal version painting, suggesting that the artist has taken as c. In point of fact, few if jewellery complete with mirror ring providing a any non-religious Portuguese visitors had yet striking contrast to the iconic composition and reached the Mughal capital.

It may be noted also simplicity of her loose skirt and voluminous that an Indian sword has been substituted for a cloak Welch A, fig. European rapier. II, pp. The Rao portraits of eminent men of his empire for the central figure. While some of the border stands dressed in a plain white muslin jama over inclusion in his last major album project that is figures in this album are stock images, these are lilac paijama decorated with scrolls. A patka now called the Late Shah Jahan Album.

The somewhat quizzically at his master. The figure his torso, a gold brocade turban is on his head, portrait pages from this album almost always in the middle of the upper border though and his ensemble is completed by gold slippers have figural borders, as opposed to the purely somewhat abraded is equally fine as he tests the with striking vertically extended backs to the floral borders of the calligraphic pages.

In many sharpness of his blade. A magnificent shield painted with single cases the figures in the borders actually Elaine Wright has listed all the known flowers hangs from over his shoulder and a long constitute secondary portraits and the men paintings from the Late Shah Jahan Album straight sword with gilded and jewelled pommel depicted can occasionally be identified as , pp. Chattar Sal is joined by six round his waist.

One of the hilts of the katar Rao Chattar Sal was awarded the rare honour other portraits of Rajputs in the album, but tucked into his patka on the other side is visible of having two portraits included in this album. He is silhouetted The second one formerly in the Heeramaneck Amber, the others being important to Shah against a plain eau-de-nil background that Collection is now in the Los Angeles County Jahan earlier in his life such as his friend Raja changes into the sky above with the suggestion Museum of Art Heeramaneck , pl.

Chattar Rao Chattar Sal succeeded to the throne of version of ours: it lacks some of the detail of the Sal appears in one of the detached paintings Bundi as a young man after the death of his sword pommel while the artist seems to have now in the British Library intended for the grandfather Rao Ratan Singh in , at which misunderstood the hilt of the katar and has the later volumes of the Padshahnama , when he time Kota was separated from Bundi and given Rao grasp his hands around it.

Chattar seated figures in the upper and lower borders as Aurangzeb Losty and Roy , fig. Sal in his turn rendered sterling service to Shah is usual in this album, compared with the single There he appears slightly younger than in Jahan, taking part in many of the campaigns in figure in our album page.

This latter is an our portrait and that in Los Angeles, suggesting the Deccan and in the north-west against the unusual feature but not unique compare a date for our portrait about Actual size Iranians and the Uzbeks. He loyally supported Ehnbohm , no. These H. The symbolism of showing signs of old age, so perhaps 40 years old to our prince Wright , no. By , when halos and light in Mughal imperial portraits is re- at the most.

He wears a full beard that is relatively he was again painted reporting to his father in La- lated to the semi-divine self-image which they short allowing most of his neck to be visible and hore Losty and Roy , fig. His hair is pulled up tight on his neck un- vary even when it went grey and then white. Dara ance is depicted in several different ways. The der his turban.

Three ropes of pearls encircle his neck, one with a 44; Pal , no. He appears at a window, Leach , no. This cannot be Shah fascination with the imagery of light is demon- hangs above. As for Murad reign where he is seated on a terrace and caught in The identity of this prince is difficult to estab- Bakhsh, he is always depicted beardless in the Pad- a shaft of light emanating from the heavens lish.

It was previously published as a portrait of shahnama but in later portraits his beard is much Beach , no. Aurangzeb —60 Grube , no. That fuller e. It was taken into account, it becomes easier to identify in this form: he is depicted for example nimbate only in or so that the three eldest sons of him.

The portrait takes the form of a jharokha por- and with his beard turning grey in a window por- Shah Jahan started to grow beards as confirmed trait, a form of iconography strictly reserved un- trait c.

His three brothers were already show himself to the populace. Our prince is also Provenance: there in attendance on their father Beach, Koch nimbate, something that only Dara Shikoh was H. Aurangzeb, however, allowed among the sons of Shah Jahan during his no.

He is depicted in the Padshahnama over his plain muslin jama. Two patkas encircle many times at court, but also in the field at the his waist, while a dagger is tucked into them moment of his greatest triumph, at the capture beneath his jacket.

A gold hawk flies in the Deccani kingdoms Beach, Koch and above him. He can be identified as Mahabat Thackston , pl. Mahabat Khan is wearing a generalised Zamana Beg, his original name, entered the version of the robe of honour sent to him in service of Prince Salim as a young man, and his , a short sleeveless coat of gold brocade first act of importance was to murder the Raja embroidered with flowers with a fur tippet and of Bhojpur for Salim who had been annoyed by edging.

It resembles the nadiri, a short the raja. He rose quickly through the ranks as a sleeveless coat that was normally reserved only great general. A portrait in the Kevorkian for the emperor and his family. This suggests Album in New York by Manohar shows him at that the original of this portrait was done when Actual size this stage of his career, c.

Round his waist is tied an orange patka, whose ends are embroidered with large poppies on a gold ground. He rests his hands on the hilt of his sword which is pointing to the ground, while a katar is pushed through his cummerbund.

The turban is wound tightly on to his head giving it a slightly conical appearance that became increasingly fashionable in the 18th century Falk and Archer , nos. A thin gold dupatta wound round his upper body completes his ensemble. The blue background against which he is silhouetted is probably original; as are the two solitary flowers, but the intersecting planes of the green ground at his feet with their regular tufts of lighter green grass seem to have been added in Lucknow at the end of the next century.

For the solitary flowers compare the portrait of Amanat Khan, c. Falk and Archer , illustrations pp. A candelabrum illuminates the scene. In the distance is a miniature version of the common 18th century theme of a prince on horseback accepting a drink of water from women at a well e.

Falk and Archer , no. They are heading towards a large fire that seems to come from the town hidden behind the trees. Is this, one wonders, a reference to the wars that engulfed eastern India in the s?

Even so, life went on in the timeless Indian way. The scene seems to illustrate no particular story but serves as an excuse for an artist to demonstrate his painterly skills. The recession of the landscape towards another town and the distant hills is particularly skilfully handled as is the overall darkness. The main theme of women visiting a shrine or a yogi or Yogini by night was a particular favourite of the artist Mir Kalan Khan e.

Topsfield , no. Unusually for this type of scene, the darkness is carried through right into the landscape and the night sky sprinkled with stars. Beyond, a dark landscape with highlights of flowering trees and plants leads back towards hills on which stand two other figures similarly dressed.

A golden sky fills the rest of the painting. Gold inscriptions identify the figures as the prophets Daniel and Zacharias on the terrace while the background figures are intended for Moses on Mount Sinai, his hands gesturing upwards to heaven, and John the Baptist, who holds the sword symbolic of his decapitation. All four are nimbate as befits their status as prophets in Islam.

Their oversized heads with heavy shading are typical of Lucknow painting in the 19th century. For a survey of Lucknow painting at this time see Losty , and for Lucknow art and culture in general, see Markel and Gude These number in Arabic numerals 49; with inventory include some of the most magnificent studies numbers from the royal Mewar collection lower in early Mughal painting, such as the pair of right and above cheetahs in the Sadruddin Aga Khan Painting: At the top, looking like a big cat about to spring, this study from above shows it trying to catch a bird fluttering its wings in the top corner.

Below the second study shows a tiger gnawing at its prey, a winged and spotted animal. Behind is a green ground with flowers. Welch , p. An elephant under a tree with keepers and mahouts trying to control them are a common An elephant chained to a tree is playfully feature of several early paintings.

One in the blowing water out of its trunk trying to hit Freer Gallery attributed to Farrukh Chela c. The mahout mounted and a keeper kneeling at the elephant is tied down in several ways, rear trying to control the beast Jahangir , p. There is a striking the tree, while another chain is round his resemblance between the two paintings in the other rear leg attached to a stump and also to unusual long sweeping brush strokes used for his left foreleg, his right foreleg being the rendition of the trunk of the tree.

Two other attached to a log. Its keeper is trying to studies of elephants attributable to Farrukh scramble up the tree by throwing another Chela are in the Gulshan Album in Tehran rope round the trunk in order to get on top of Beach , fig.

He has already placed his adze-like in the Deccan, such as one of a mahout trying to tool over a branch to assist him in hauling calm down an enraged elephant c.

Binney , no. The way the grass is depicted 17th century study of a mahout struggling to suggests the cow and calf attributed to Basavan control an elephant under a tree in the British now in Doha Das , fig.

The frontispiece of the Various features about the painting are had been established since , to collect and Bible, a draped classical figure being crowned unusual. The Virgin is seated on an extraordi- bring back European artefacts and works of art. European skills. In several delicate floral scroll pattern. The shape of chair musical instruments including an organ. They had is dressed similarly to the allegorical figure and Virgin. This first Jesuit mission flowers instead of a sarpech.

Akbar we including a solid ring of gold as well as a long chain blood, as red as pomegranate juice. She is wearing a loose blue modelled simply with darker coloured stripes, the greatest respect, and ordered his artists to shalwar round her hips and legs, a yellow choli or a feature of the early Virgin and Child referred to make copies Brand and Lowry , pp. Her bodice is open so that the Christ Instead however of a Mughal face or even a Euro- throne with the Christ Child suckling at her Child can gain access to her breast.

While found in her hips and a voluminous cloak, transformed head. He is perched across one thigh, supported by some very early Mughal miniatures, this feature into something completely different by her one of her hands, while with the other she offers as well as the elongated neck the Chester Beatty Indian jewellery complete with a mirror ring him her breast.

This is a wonderfully tender Yogini for example, Zebrowski , col. X on her thumb Welch A, fig. He looks up at her face, and the rings of necklaces ibid. It is Mughal artists thereafter played endless forthcoming passion and her own agony as was possible that our Mughal artist had recently variations on two of the European depictions of traditional in European renditions of this scene, joined the Mughal studio from the Deccan.

A young prince is out hunting, riding a stallion The album, now dispersed, contained a series with his hawk on his gloved right fist. Behind of Mughal paintings and drawings dating from him rides a crowd of courtiers while he is the late 16th and 17th centuries.

The scene is set in a rocky landscape with a domed shrine in the top right-hand corner. For a comparable hunting scene showing Humayun resting on a hunting expedition, see Losty and Leach , no.

Our artist has a very distinctive method of rendering faces in profile: he draws their eyes small and pushed forward so that he is left with a large expanse of featureless space at the side of the face from the forehead beneath the turban right down to the chin. This may be the work of the artist Hiranand, who is known from his paintings in the Akbarnama of —03 Beach , fig. The , since he used mostly line and a very This is a composite image inspired by two setting is a courtyard with a view of hills delicate kind of wash.

For other Mughal wash European prints, which now looks like a portly beyond. Another version with the same figures and line drawings of the early 17th century ruler being reverenced by two acolytes. The composition and Passion series has long been known to have sprinkler to anoint Christ. John from the Crucifixion from this series In terms of priority, the Binney page is the the century. The enthroned robed composition and in intention.

Muslims had India, while cut- off subsidiary figures, only figure is based on the figure of Caiaphas in the difficulty accepting the point of the passion and their heads and shoulders visible, wait outside. The figures of Christ and the man and a precursor of the Prophet.

In tune this scene and has introduced the hound in the soldiers have been replaced in our drawing by with Muslim sensibilities the Paris artist and Paris version, but made him strangely elevated.

Both figures have lost their mocking and on the waistband of the central figure. The artist has Christ more closely. That in the Binney used these two disparate sources to create what collections in San Diego Binney , no. His portrayal in stands facing left, dressed in a yellow jama from the reigns of Jahangir and Shah Jahan. A our painting suggests that it conforms to his sprigged with irises over lilac paijama with a splendidly intense drawing in the Chester appearance in the years around He is armed with a that Jahangir adopted in and which many master the imperial crown, shows him with a sword with a gem-encrusted hilt and a shield courtiers wore in imitation Leach , no.

He is still beardless, as he is in a painting 3. He holds a jewelled turban and has his Nationale , no. If he is depicted Jahangir in and his daughter Mumtaz feature until A window portrait of him here as he was early in the reign of Shah Jahan, Mahal married Prince Khurram afterwards dated in the St Petersburg Album shows then an explanation must be sought for his Shah Jahan. He is often mentioned in the throne for Shah Jahan in that year von opposite page of the album in the normal way the Jahangirnama beginning in and Hapsburg , pl.

He is accorded there the of such double portraits in the imperial albums, included in paintings of the imperial durbars rare honour for anyone outside the imperial e.

It has been surmised pl. When Emperor Jahangir died in , it portraits around This is also how he is depicted in aigrette is fixed in front of the central peak. The Mughals might not have been than The unbalanced position of the somewhat romanticised and studded with too familiar with it: it should have a central red subject so close to the bottom frame of the jewels, although the basic shape remains the baton for instance, as depicted in a late 17th miniature indicates that at some later time it same, as in a page in the St Petersburg Album century painting in the Sadruddin Aga Khan was removed from its original Shahjahani mount von Hapsburg , pl.

Other versions of it collection Canby , no. In later years these and remounted in its present album page. In all these versions the upturned but Museum Canby , fig. Persian turban, then it can be surmised that the In our turban the blue cap has a high central portrait was placed opposite one of the Persian point, but the other parts seem to include a ambassadors in the original album pairing and subsidiary peak at the back and a folded back that the original portrait of Asaf Khan dates from peak at the front to which the aigrette seems to If however the artist meant to represent be attached.

It is possible he was presenting it. Chishti mentioned earlier. Although not Archer , no. The fact that house kabutar khana. The male on the right is pigeon house as here. An exquisite drawing of the format is a replica in miniature of that of chasing the female. Surrounding them within a these three elements linked by floral sprays is the portrait pages of the Late Shah Jahan border are fourteen other smaller pigeons of in the Fogg Art Museum Welch and Masteller Album suggests a later dating, since the usual different varieties, mostly in pairs.

The inner , no. Our right hand pigeon is possibly based painted in the borders to reflect something of deeply biscuit-tinted paper than the on one of that pair, in mirror reverse.

A band the character or occupation of the main surrounding area. The central portion may be with a very similar pair of pigeons and a pigeon portrait see cat. Colnaghi , no. At the same time other Central Asia. The birds were bred landscape Falk and Archer , illustrated on Das, A. Pigeon was with Colnaghi in differs in that it bears keeping and flying remained one of the the attribution to the Mughal artist Mansur. It principal imperial pastimes.

In the nineteenth is difficult to accept this attribution when century the courtyard of the Diwan-i Khas in compared with securely ascribed paintings see the Delhi palace was filled with kabutar khana Das and and Verma passim.

The or pigeon houses Losty , pp. Album page: The memoirs are Jahangir records in his memoirs for 12 March became senseless and fell down. Most of those who were present doubted filled with the stuff of battles and conquest that fill outside the Divan-i Khas at Agra. He writes whether he had not had an epileptic fit. Immediately he fell he had idiom of the originals of the Jahangirnama. Various buffoonery, mimicking a religious dance. After a short never completed and the paintings were later faith and its shrine qibla.

They carried him away Milo Beach lists them , pp. I, pp. This Nizamu-d-din Auliya had put his cap on the illuminating the scene. Jahangir looking shows Jahangir at a jharokha window looking down side of his head, and was sitting on a terraced perplexed has risen from his seat on the terrace at a terrace with a scene of wrestlers surrounded by roof by the bank of the Jumna and watching and is approaching the dying man with his son the members of his court, perhaps the scene referred the devotions of the Hindus.

Down below the terrace a group of attendants look up in mystification from the courtyard that is now called the Macchi Bhavan. Hitherto only one Jahangirnama page has shown much of the old palace at Agra. This is a scene set on the ground below the palace terrace with Jahangir looking out from the jharokha in the Shah Burj with a rather similar wooden hypostyle hall to the right Goswamy and Fischer , no. Visible also in our painting are the two throne seats on the terrace.

At the other side of the terrace is the black marble throne seat that Jahangir had placed there for his appearances looking down on the people gathered on the river bank, here covered with white cushions and with a rich textile hanging over the balustrade. When the walls and for the Jahangirnama Jahangir , repro.

Another came into view, I went about a kos on foot original representation of Ajmer from the and assigned my escorts to give money to Jahangirnama showing the distribution of food the poor and needy as they proceeded.

As described in the text, Jahangir is arriving on foot at the gate of Ajmer with his principal nobles around him. Inside the shrine walls the custodians wait to receive him.

To the right we can see food and alms being handed out to a crowd of indigents, many of whom appear to be Hindu fakirs. Beyond the shrine is the royal palace and further up the hill the ancient fortress.

He was a cultured individual, and completed by John Seyller, giving us the start points of the principal orthogonals are attracted scholars, poets and musicians to his precious information that he and Hunhar were reinforced by the figures and the hookah at palace in Delhi. He was supposed to have brothers , no. The suffix those points. Nidhamal seems to be the inventor of had some time previously left Delhi for province — On his return to Delhi he this type of terrace portrait occupying the Lucknow and died there.

Ascribed or signed was murdered at the entrance to the Divan-i whole foreground with a garden and hypostyle paintings from his time in Lucknow are known Khas by a newly appointed attendant to the pavilion in the background.

It grew out of the Losty and Roy , pp. Clearly our Emperor see Shahnawaz Khan —52, vol. Shah or one of his ministers seated in a pavilion to enter into the collection of Nawab Asaf al- This sumptuous painting of Amir Khan favoured by artists such as Chitarman Daula reg. Only a large , no. One pavilion to the background as in a painting details of now vanished inscription and seal young attendant waves a morchhal over him from around of Muhammad Shah on a on verso and another stands with a hawk on his gloved terrace receiving his ministers now in San T.

McInerney McInerney , fig. Both are Diego Dalrymple and Sharma, no. In our Eva and Konrad Seitz Collection Seyller and equally simply dressed in long floor-length painting he further refines this idea treating Seitz , no. Simple white jamas marble balustrade and flower border behind it, Seyller, J. New too is the concern with Nidhamal was one of the most important what to a western eye seems a more accurate artists of the Muhammad Shah period and he representation of European linear perspective.

A tall wrapped standard in the create his own painterly fantasies. Apart from Clearly a European source is behind the Mughal manner but without Mughal finials the obvious borrowings from Europe in this composition and the latter element inevitably stands on each side of the throne.

The throne is scene, we note that some of the feathery, brings to mind the Biblical story of Salome supported by an array of spindly legs which brilliantly coloured trees seem to have strayed demanding the head of John the Baptist after extend to include a round footstool on which from early Deccani painting as in the Pem-nem she had danced for King Herod at a banquet.

Hutton , figs. The etc. The artist was familiar and the diners, although none precisely fits the is laden with bottles and fruit. At the other end with early Bijapuri painting as demonstrated format of this painting.

In any case the artist of the table an attendant with a morchhal has by his well-known version of A Princess has clearly thought the subject to be too fallen asleep. On the right the exercise in the Bijapuri idiom. A leash is attached to the , fig. Paintings in the mature Temple, ascribed to our artist, and now in the tethered. In the foreground a pair of goats or Muhammad Shah landscape style in the s Benkaim collection Markel and Gude , no.

Behind the figures is a screen of figs. Sometime in the s, almost Sheba, now in the Binney collection in the San brilliantly coloured trees and shrubs. Many of these details are al-Daula. There he came under the influence of In this painting the young princess figure also found in the two paintings from the Forbes European prints of the 17th and 18th centuries. It is more likely that this influence was felt after in Faizabad when the Nawab was made to accept a Resident from the East India Company and when refugee officers from the French Compagnie des Indes such as Col.

Gentil was joined in by Col. Claude Martin, who is known to have had a large collection of European prints, and by Col. Antoine Polier in Such influence from European prints is felt directly in this painting, the two related ones from the Forbes Album discussed above, and the famous Village Life in Kashmir in the British Library McInerney , fig.

The beautiful Salome figure in our painting, with her draped Biblical costume, seems a slightly later improvement on the female figures in the latter painting, in which our two goats are also to be seen in the foreground.

All these paintings share the same treatment of the human figure with small, delicate heads and features, and neatly articulated bodies. In his earlier work in Delhi Mir Kalan Khan mostly used the traditional full profile for his figures but on his move to Avadh, influenced by Deccani, Safavid and European ideas, he switched to three-quarter profile for his main characters. In the politically astute and major impact on worldwide trade and design on South Indian painted cottons and was increasingly influential Raja Bihar Mal joined during the seventeenth and eighteenth perhaps unaware that high quality painted forces with the new Mughal emperor Akbar, centuries.

Intricately coloured, washable cloth cottons were produced in other parts of India. Indian craftsmen some of the designs, Irwin thought those up the ladder of influence.

That union produced had invented a sophisticated technology for textiles had been made for export. He did not Jahangir, who also was wed to two Amber permanently dyeing cotton cloth with many consider them to have been made for the princesses.

Thus, not only did a succession of colours to make chintz, or painted cotton cloth. Mughal market. Chintz was also mass- light of day in Golconda. Long known as an eminent and many colours on one textile. Millions of yards initial ownership, and the fact that excellent capable general under Shah Jahan and of Indian cloth were sold throughout the world painted cottons were made in North India as Aurangzeb, Mirza Raja Jai Singh r.

Home consumption included every well as in the south. The seventeenth-century imperial that their decorative vocabulary has been When a textile or carpet was acquisitioned at Mughal chintzes known today, though few in incorporated into the collective scholarly mind Amber, the size and date, and, sometimes, the number, meet the highest aesthetic standards. When understanding of textile production and use Most of the seventeenth-century painted subsequent inventories were made, the dates during the Mughal era is often conjectural.

Because many of the references to seventeenth-century as having been made for foreign markets. Culin Archive, Expeditions group of Mughal textiles, including this green- edges length 7 gaz 8 girah, width 7 gaz 4 girah 5 little five-petalled red and white flowers at the a Mughal painting of the highest calibre, and was [2. Ram Singh — centre of the whirling arms of the floral made for a Rajput Mughal courtier. Volume 2 of 2. A gaz its size, design, and provenance, but also Bishan Singh — dance across the green ground.

Some of the Amber textiles have to commemorate a marriage between the two There has been some damage from the iron still complete, a testament to the care it drawn and dyed. A resist, probably molten wax, these rows of formal flowers, too. The Rajput families. See Catherine Glynn and Ellen oxide used for the black outlines, but otherwise received in those storerooms.

A different mordant dressed themselves with what was the fashion at Asiae, Vol. Sackler Gallery, reverse are now hidden by the backing added to round seal stamp like a stamp on a similarly appeared when the cloth was dyed with madder.

Where the Amber painted cottons were made Washington, DC, strengthen and preserve this important textile. Some of the Ellen S. Smart many abbreviations and in a very hurried, The summer carpet is made up of seven colours depending on the mordant.

The yellow Jaipur carpet inscriptions include place of imprecise hand, which is difficult to decipher. The loom and blue colours were achieved by painting with purchase, so such a notation on a chintz will not Although the Amber Rajputs were Hindu, the widths, given above, are smaller than usual for a brush, which, unlike dipping in a dye bath, be unexpected.

It is this group, which suggests that the floor- results in a mottled effect. Yellow and blue interesting that the accounting was in this covering was ordered to be a particular size, applied consecutively produced the green. The inscriptions which have dimensions. After the woven strips were sewn edges. However, one meandering row is quite Museum Journal , Washington, D. There must have been It is smaller than the others, but just as Delhi: Oxford University Press, , pp.

Smaller versions of the same An exceptionalrefined Bidri Pandan Small mango-shaped Bidri Hookah courtly arts, particularly metalwork including darkened with a copper sulphate solution. The Deccan, Bidar, 17th century plants are around the body of the pandan. India, 17th century Base or Container bidri, in the s, when a small group of design is then cut into it with engraving tools Diameter: These objects were given or both.

Once the inlay has been burnished, the This tray is inlaid with brass and silver, to which a slightly later example in the Victoria and This pandan has straight sides and a gently prominence in by Robert Skelton and his surface of the object is covered with a paste decorated with large cartouches enclosing Albert Museum also belongs inv.

When arrangement, and linked with a meandering a cluster of three flowers, the centre of the lid flowering plants inlaid in silver and brass.

The Life Arts under Mughal Rule. Dealers and the paste is washed off and the piece rubbed floral and leaf design on thin brass wire stems. In Mughal decorative arts this form was John Robert Alderman, Mark Zebrowski, dazzles with the contrast of silver and brass style of the 17th century Mughal courtly arts. Mughal India, London, , cat.

The most important and comprehensive silver, silver-gilt or copper. Many pieces requiring repeated firings to produce the entire narrower. These hand held hookahs derived According to Zebrowski, Zebrowski, , cat.

In the 18th and 19th century the their shape from the Persian kalian. They were , pp. Muslim rulers of the court of Oudh favoured in vogue in India in the second half of the 18th cast brass ewer is remarkable for having plants.

This is an early example retained much of its original red and green lac. Zebrowski, , This ewer relates to another in the Los Angeles illustrated in Zebrowski Zebrowski, , p. County Museum of Art Zebrowski, , cat. Our hookah base is decorated new techniques of manufacture and remarkable for its high quality but also its The pear-shaped form of both, derive from domed spice box in the Los Angeles County with a row of large, single flowering plants with embellishment of which the most important diversity.

This distinctive type of inlaid Mughal courtly and devotional objects, A ribbed brass Pandan of circular Museum inv. Markel, Gude, , pl.

This ewer is from the same workshop as a variety of smaller flowers. The following objects give a taste Height: 7. Simon Digby shoulder of the sphere. The neck is decorated from the first half of the 17th century. Bidri is of the collection. The decoration is equally balanced of zinc but may also include smaller amounts of alternating flowering plants around a central Zebrowski, M.

After casting, the surface circle enclosing a flower head seen from above, Mughal India, London, , p. The dropped pear- century Lucknow had become famed for its shaped ewer has a sinuous spout and rounded silver and silver-gilt metalwork with brilliant handle, with everted top and lid. This lid are entirely decorated with an engraved chillam is one of the finest and most delicate overall feathered fish-scale pattern. This design examples of its type.

The Nandi bull is seated on the pedestal North India, Lucknow, midth century and holds a tazza or tray on his back. Nandi is the Height: 9 cm ; Diameter: 9 cm vehicle of Shiva.

This ritual object would have been placed next to a lingam together with other An exquisite openwork decoration of birds devotional accessories. It would have belonged to within foliage, birds together within swirling a wealthy or courtly family on account of the vegetation and single flowering plants. Although extremely Francesca Galloway high quality enamel was produced for the Mughal and Deccani courts it is thought the technique came from Europe. Jahangir mentions European jewels at this time Cat.

Text panel: The Dharma Collection, Israel, acquired in New ancient kings and heroes of Persia composed by The artist of the illustrations obviously had York, c.

King Khusrau has summoned Rustam illustrations the figures wear Persian costume to help him stop a demon div disguised as a and the latest fashion of turban from Qazwin or Published wild ass that is ravaging the royal herds. After Isfahan e. Pal , no. Even there the McInerney, , no. Thereupon, the Div Akvan their long narrow faces as in the Pem-nem cast aside his disguise, resumed his demonic manuscript in the British Library Hutton Our page is eaten by lions and onagers, or being cast into the different.

The scene is one of the most popular sea. Knowing that the Div would do the exact in the Shahnama and illustrated in most opposite of what he said and thinking that if manuscripts. Our artist has kept closely to his thrown into the sea, he would have a chance of 16th century Persian model in the iconography, survival, Rustam asked to be thrown against the but provided a beautiful Bijapuri landscape of mountains.

Here the div is about to hurl Rustam green- and lilac-edged rocks and small pointed and the ground on which he was sleeping into dark trees silhouetted against a gold sky the sea. Rustam in fact was able to swim back to compare Hutton , figs. He seems to have had his tongue firmly in his The folios come from a dispersed Shahnama cheek in providing a voracious but comical sea manuscript thought to have been prepared in monster.

Rustam lies back as always his head Bijapur around Akvan by way of contrast seems Painting actual size and Albert Museum, and various private worried about being interrupted in his work collections. The central panel on a red ground contains birds perched amidst leaves and flowers; the surrounding areas on black ground contain animals, qilins, and birds amongst trees and rocks. The Safavid work is still comparatively open with larger animals and birds, while the Deccani illuminators created a much denser effect with smaller creatures and trees.

As with the Safavid examples, the illuminators employed more than one tone of gold creating a shimmering, almost mesmerising effect as the eye follows the creatures up and down the page. The artist has employed a technique of painting in gold that makes the overall design seem like filigree work and it is possible that the design was originally intended as the doublure of a binding. For similar examples of illuminated pages from the Deccan, see cat.

The panel is surrounded by a the blessed palace precinct. As the Ilahi , 9. For other illuminated Private collection, New York, before folios from the Deccan see Welch , no. All the gold work in our example is richly tooled and scraped away allowing the black background to appear giving an extraordinary richness to the effect. A cloth fixing strip on the left suggests that the board was once part of Actual size a binding, perhaps a doublure or the cover of a concertina album.

The central panel of provenance each is surrounded by identical borders filled Private collection, New York, before with wild animals and birds frolicking in the forest in gold against a rich red ground. Formalised but decorative trees seem a feature of Deccani art and design perhaps derived from ideas of the Parijata tree or Tree of Paradise.

For comparable Deccani paintings and textiles featuring similar sprays and oversize wild life, see Zebrowski figs. A cloth fixing strip on the left suggests that the board was once part of a binding, perhaps a doublure or the cover of a concertina album. For other illuminated folios from the Deccan see Welch , no. The author is unknown. Another retainer holds a chowrie more elaborate compositions in the Deccan.

The the tropes of Deccani painting at the turn of the background is almost totally blank save for a century as in Atachin Beg Bahadur Qalmaq in strip of green at the bottom and of pink at the the British Museum Zebrowski , fig. Interestingly its head-guard or is in the Rietberg Museum ibid.

All of these examples show a horses in Indian warfare theory. One of the earliest Mughal quality similar to that of the plain backgrounds examples of the genre is of Aurangzeb for the portrait of Aurangzeb and Ikhlas Khan c. The crisp outline of the figures armoured in chain mail, in the British Library and the sparing use of colour against the blank Losty and Roy , fig.

This relative Binney collection in San Diego Binney , austerity combined with the treatment of the no. Both show the subject silhouetted hair and beard of all the figures are suggestive against a plain ground.

The panels are surrounded by a wide border decoration, jades, ivories etc. The floral Provenance border of scrolling leaf and floral arabesque. The hackneyed with the passage of time. India and Ceylon some questions remain Hardwood furniture, richly decorated with regarding the centres of production for this inlaid woods and ivory were an important part particular group of material which is more of the luxury trade between India and Europe — closely associated with Mughal court style and initially with Portugal and subsequently with yet was made for a European clientele.

We Holland and Britain. By the second half of the know from contemporary accounts that the 17th century, larger two-door cabinets replaced heavy 17th century ebony carved furniture, the smaller portable fall-front cabinet, reflecting like the material Horace Walpole had at changes in Europe in the design and use of Strawberry Hill, was made along the cabinets which were increasingly devised as Coromandel Coast, specifically at or near showpieces mounted on European stands.

By the end of the century By the early 18th century the manufacture of the Vizagapatam is thought to have become a major more spectacular cabinets ceased with the centre for high quality Company School change of fashion in Europe.

By Cambay, Surat and Goa are generally ascribed the midth century Vizagapatam was as the ports of export. Gujarat was a likely centre for the Museum in London and the Museu de Arte manufacture of the showy, exotic Mughal style Antigua in Lisbon. Another of stems and leaves, centred on a single rosette, example with similar decoration but of a within floral scroll borders. There are brass carrying no. The escutcheons appear to be private collection in Japan.

Charles II period — , and therefore The large standing figures on the inside of the pre-date our cabinet, they might have been doors relate to late 17th century Golconda added at the time or later to the cabinet. However, recent The doors open to reveal a symmetrical scholarship favours a Gujarat or Sindh origin arrangement of drawers, long and short, deep since workshops engaged in this production and shallow all with figurative ivory inlay. Also, square central drawer where a courtly couple contemporary accounts make no mention of face each other, seated on a floor-spread.

A shallow drawer immediately above it is The size of our cabinet reflects late 17th balustraded to maintain the illusion of century European taste for using large cabinets architecture. Inside each door the figure of a as showpieces and mounting them on stands in court official faces towards the central scene, Europe. By the early 18th century demand for a wand of office in his hand. He is flanked by this type of cabinet waned as fashions changed. Private Collection, Switzerland The details of the floral and figurative ivory inlay are incised.

Francesca Galloway This cabinet belongs to a group of ivory inlaid furniture with similar external decoration and variations on the internal, figurative layout.

This element consists of the tube. In this example five strings pass over a rampant yali, a mythical beast with leonine the main bridge, decorated with the Saraswati head whose attributes sometimes include carving, and three over a secondary bridge, issuing foliage from its mouth. In this example decorated with Ganesha. Our carved tailpiece the yali is spewing pearled, ornate vegetation would suggest that this rudra vina was an from its mouth.

Its claws stand on a lotus flower exceptionally fine instrument, if somewhat support which is repeated at either side, above a smaller than modern instruments. A larger carving assistance with the cataloguing of this object. Saraswati is shown playing a more archaic type of vina, which also has a decorative Francesca Galloway tailpiece, in the form of a makara. Rampant yalis are a feature of Orissan and South Indian temple architecture and decoration.

The style in which this yali has been carved, together with the treatment of other elements of decoration; point to Orissa as the centre of production. Dwivedi dates these ivories to the late 17th century based on similarities with Orissan manuscript decoration Dwivedi, , p.

The rudra vina or bin is a large plucked stringed instrument used in Indian classical music. It was the most prestigious instrument of court music until the 19th century, and is still played in North India, primarily for alap, the improvisatory exposition of a raga. They relate to an openwork steel ankus daggers dating from the 16thth century, 19th century blade elephant goad , now in the Museum of Fine predominantly from Mughal India.

Many of the Overall length: These masterpieces of Muslim courts of India were pre-eminent for Indian ivory and steel are thought to have been their opulence and quality of craftsmanship, White nephrite hilt of superb quality with made as temple offerings or for ceremonial and some are decorated with animal heads.

Further details and emeralds. The long tapering slightly the 17th century, possibly for Thirumalai are available on request. The entire surface of the ivory grip is carved with intricate foliate motifs with tiny elephants and entwined pearls. The blade is intricately pierced and chiselled with filigree scrollwork and with mythical birds; the base depicts Siva holding a trident and leaping antelope, trampling a dwarf demon and flanked by his consorts.

The text was provenance remain a matter of scholarly Inscribed in nagari on the recto: above left: written in its present form during the ninth to debate. For an up to date survey of the relevant Garuda And on the reverse with the Sanskrit text divided into twelve books. The tenth canto for a provenance in Mewar, and for a contrary in nagari of Bhagavata Purana, X, 59, vv. It has earrings.

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But there was no talk about the other baby, Tom Canty, lapped in his poor rags, except among the family of paupers whom he had just come to trouble with his presence.