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Rs 30,000
Mughal Miniature Painting
Fazaia Housing Scheme Phase 1, Lahore
1 week agoDetails
Is DeliverableNo
ConditionNew
Price30,000
TypeOther Paintings
Description
This painting is from The Late Shah Jahan Album
This painting is hand painted in a very small scale of 6” by 4” using the ancient painting technique Gudrung the paints applied and the wasli it self is hand prepared
about the history of figure in the painting,
Sundardas was an important and respected military figure under ahangit, who, in 1617, awarded him the title Raja Bikramajit, which was, he says,
"an important
ficle among the Hindus. " However, in 1623, when Shah fahan rebelled against his
blamed him for being
father, Raja Bikramajit sided with the prince, his close companion, and Jahangu
"the ringleader of all the trouble and mischief. " Much to
the delight of Jahangir, he was killed in battle later that same year:" A portrait of a younger Sundardas is included in the Kevorkian Album,
188 and in cat. no. 25 he
is depicted in the position of greatest importance, standing to Shah Jahan's imme diate left (directly below the gold cushion of the throne). When Shah Jahan decid ed to produce an album that would include portraits of all his closest and most Loyal associates, both alive and long dead, Raja Bikramajit would surely have been one of the first individuals he chose to include.
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