Live Auction 17464Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence
A PORTRAIT OF KHAN ZAMAN
Lot 328

A PORTRAIT OF KHAN ZAMAN

ATTRIBUTABLE TO BICHITR, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1630

Closed19 June 2019

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A PORTRAIT OF KHAN ZAMAN
ATTRIBUTABLE TO BICHITR, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1630
Opaque pigments and gold on paper, on an album leaf, backed on cream card
Painting 8 ¼ x 4 3/8 ins. (20.5 x 11 cm.); folio 17 ½ x 11 ¾ ins. (44.9 x 30.2 cm.)

Shuja al-Daula, Nawab of Awadh (r.1754-75)
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, K.B. (1725-74), Governor of Bengal, as a gift from the Nawab in circa 1765; from the Small Clive Album, previously on long-term loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Christie's, London, 18 December 1968, lot 77
Sven Gahlin Collection, sold Sotheby’s, London, 6 October 2015, lot 27