Two pages of an emperor's portrait album, India, 19th centur - Lot 301

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Two pages of an emperor's portrait album, India, 19th centur - Lot 301
Two pages of an emperor's portrait album, India, 19th century. Gouache and gold on paper laminated to cardboard, each depicting a Mughal emperor in bust form behind the parapet of a jharokha window in an oval medallion with floral spandrels. Both are dressed in white, wearing turbans with egrets and gold-plated sarpushes, their faces haloed by a golden nimbus. The first page appears to depict Emperor Jahangir looking to the right and holding a sarpush and the handle of a talwar in his hand, while the second page shows the elderly Emperor Akbar, facing left, with a feathered aigrette and the handle of a talwar in his hands. Portraits surrounded by beautiful margins decorated with floral stems in gold and midnight blue gouache. Overall size: 26.2 x 17.8 cm and 26.1 x 17.7 cm; portrait size: 9.7 x 7.3 cm and 9.8 x 7.3 cm Some chips, a crack through the left arm of aged Akbar, some later retouching. In window cartouches.
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