Indian Miniature Painting Maharaja Holding Flower & Sword Fine Quality

  

A fine quality, original Indian miniature painting of a Mughal ruler, probably a Maharaja, with sword smelling a flower. Gouache on paper in a polychrome colour palette.

This beautifully executed miniature painting features a Mughal ruler, probably a Maharaja, contemplating a single flower, a pose associated with perhaps the greatest Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan. It's symbolises the individual involved is both highly educated and of superior breeding. Set off against a dark teal painted ground, it's very much in the Indian tradition, in which generation after generation of miniature painters recreate images that have gone before as inspiration. Worthy of particular mention is the depiction of the.

Beard painted with a single hair, clearly the work of an accomplished hand. This authentic Indian miniature has been executed in a polychrome colour palette enhanced with gold and. Dates to the first half of the 20th c. The image remains fresh despite its age, having been covered and protected in its previous incarnation.

It's presented here in a more recent frame with a silk slip. Hooks and wire attached verso for hanging. Miniatures commissioned by former Mughal Royal courts centuries ago were rarely, if ever, signed, a tradition that continues to this day, as here.

Indian miniature painting is a complex art form requiring both skill and patience. Originally, artists used natural pigments made from crushed minerals, stones and vegetables to create the colours used in their painting. Today, however, natural colours are no longer used and have been replaced by artificial colours. In the last image we show a similar pose adopted by a Maharaja in a miniature painting on display in Udaipur's City Palace.

Please look carefully at the images as they form part of the description. (INSIDE SLIP) 17.25 cms X 18.75 cms.

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