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PRINCE SALIM RIDING AN ESCAPED ELEPHANT
Lot 145

PRINCE SALIM RIDING AN ESCAPED ELEPHANT

MUGHAL INDIA, PROBABLY ALLAHABAD, CIRCA 1600-1605

Fermé19 June 2019

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USD 37,500

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PRINCE SALIM RIDING AN ESCAPED ELEPHANT
MUGHAL INDIA, PROBABLY ALLAHABAD, CIRCA 1600-1605
Opaque pigments and gold on paper, backed on cream card
Painting 7 ½ x 5 1/8 ins. (19.1 x 13.2 cm.); folio 11 5/8 x 9 ¼ ins. (29.5 x 23.6 cm.)

The Khosrovani-Diba Collection; sold, Sotheby’s, London, 19 October 2016, lot 3

Note du spécialiste

The elephant here seems to have escaped its tether, which drags behind it across the grassy hillside. The implied wild careering of the elephant serves to heighten the imagined bravery of the rider.

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