A SIKH DURBAR
DELHI SCHOOL, CIRCA 1850 – Auction at Christies

Auction Date: Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds 6 October 2011
Lot#420
Estimate: $9,342 – $12,456 USD
Sold: $10,594
Miniature 14¼ x 11½in. (36.5 x 36.5cm.); folio 16¾ x 14in. (42.4 x 35.4cm.)

CATALOGUE NOTE — Gouache heightened with gold on paper, two nimbate Sikh figures, one in red robes and another in rich green garb sit on the terrace of a pavilion, eight figures kneel before them and two figures stand, as if on guard before its stepped entrance, behind the group an elegant arcaded facade decorated in pietra dura, laid down within brown borders with plain white cartouches, small areas of scuffing
 

SIKH GURUS
DELHI SCHOOL, CIRCA 1820 – Auction at Christies

Auction Date: Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds 6 October 2011

Lot#419
Estimate: $10,899 – $15,570 USD
Sold: $14,447
Miniature 14½ x 11in. (37 x 27.7cm.); folio 19¼ x 13½in. (49 x 34.4cm.)

CATALOGUE NOTE — Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the miniature divided into rectangles, each depicting a Sikh guru seated on a rug leaning against a baluster cushion or standing on a terrace, each guru accompanied by an attendant with a fly-whisk or spittoon, one accompanied also by a musician, within gold and polychrome borders on a wide margin with lotuses on pink ground and empty red cartouche above, small losses to edges of folio.

THE FESTIVAL OF BASANT PANCHMI
CIRCA 1850 – Auction at Christies

Auction Date: Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds 6 October 2011

Lot#418
Estimate: $9,342 – $12,456 USD
Sold: $19,263
Miniature 12 x 17 7/8in. (30.9 x 46.1cm.); folio 15¾ x 21¼in. (39 x 54cm.)

CATALOGUE NOTE — Gouache heightened with gold on paper, nimbate Guru Nanak in centre surrounded by nine other Sikh Gurus and musicians, all wearing rich yellow robes and turbans, sit upon yellow rugs on a red-carpeted terrace celebrating the festival of Basant Panchmi, beyond them a rich foliate landscape, before them a balustrade, within minor black and red rules on red-speckled margins, an empty red cartouche above, some creasing

A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CITY OF LAHORE
PUNJAB, CIRCA 1840 AD – Auction at Christies

Auction Date: Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds
7 October 2011
Lot#417
Estimate: $9,342 – $12,456 USD
Sold: $94,509
9½ x 92½in. (24 x 235cm.)

CATALOGUE NOTE — Watercolour on paper, depicting the city from outside its walls, with a cavalcade of Sikh dignitaries in the foreground, the buildings with identification inscriptions in Persians, mounted, framed and glazed
 

A RAJA HARI SINGH ON HORSEBACK
PUNJAB PLAINS, CIRCA 1840 – Auction at Christies

Auction Date: Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds
6 October 2011

Lot#421
Estimate: $10,899 – $15,570 USD
Sold: $17,336
Miniature 15½ x 11½in. (39.9 x 29.1cm.); folio 18¾ x 14in. (47.7 x 35.6cm.)

CATALOGUE NOTE — Gouache heightened with gold on paper, four Sikhs in colourful and bejewelled robes and wearing turbans adorned with sarpechs ride through a landscape preceded by a standard bearer who leads them by foot, a small white dog in the foreground and hills and a silver lake beyond, within gold illuminated floral border and minor white rules on wide red margins, minor areas of flaking of paint