Folio with Calligraphy and Miniature Painting

Description:

Folio with Calligraphy and Miniature Painting, India, 18th/19th century, watercolor on paper, depicting a travelling royal procession with a covered carriage drawn by a cow, surrounded by many courtiers holding banners and a rider on horseback, in a horizontal bordered panel, with two panels of calligraphy at either end surrounded by many notes in the margins, the reverse with a column of two paragraphs of calligraphy, also heavily annotated in the margins, 10 x 5 1/4 in.
Estimate $600-800

few areas of worm damage and staining, one side lightly attached to backing paper


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