19th Jun, 2025 12:00
Arts of India and the Islamic Lands
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A NAYIKA SMOKING HUQQA ON A TERRACE
Jodhpur, Rajasthan, North-Western India, 19th century
A NAYIKA SMOKING HUQQA ON A TERRACE
PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN COLLECTION
Jodhpur, Rajasthan, North-Western India, 19th century
Opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, depicting an Indian princess or nayika (female heroine) seated on a low bed on a palatial terrace, smoking a huqqa (waterpipe), entertained by two female musicians and fanned with a morchal (peacock's tail fan) by her attendant seated behind her, set within yellow and white rules, and dark blue borders, pasted on a purple cardboard mount.
The painting 27.2cm x 18cm, 35.5cm x 28cm including the mount
Provenance: Private German collection, acquired in the 1970s.
Estimated at £500 - £700
A NAYIKA SMOKING HUQQA ON A TERRACE
PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN COLLECTION
Jodhpur, Rajasthan, North-Western India, 19th century
Opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, depicting an Indian princess or nayika (female heroine) seated on a low bed on a palatial terrace, smoking a huqqa (waterpipe), entertained by two female musicians and fanned with a morchal (peacock's tail fan) by her attendant seated behind her, set within yellow and white rules, and dark blue borders, pasted on a purple cardboard mount.
The painting 27.2cm x 18cm, 35.5cm x 28cm including the mount
Provenance: Private German collection, acquired in the 1970s.
Auction: Arts of India and the Islamic Lands, 19th Jun, 2025
Our specialist auction Arts of India and the Islamic Lands is now online for you to browse, peruse and fall in love with your next antique.
Among the highlights, this sale vaunts a remarkable selection of Rajput Schools paintings and an illustrated loose folio from a Timurid Haft Paykar series, all part of a private Canadian collection; several gem-studded Indian necklaces, treasured heirlooms of a local family; a notable group of Islamic manuscripts, including a geomantic tome attributed to the Nubian alchemist Dhul-Nun al-Misri; and several lots of Persian Qajar lacquer belonging to the heir of a British diplomatic family in office under Sir Denis Wright in Tehran between 1971 - 1973.
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