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A RED SANDSTONE FLORAL PANEL<br />
MUGHAL <strong>INDIA</strong>, PERIOD <strong>OF</strong> AKBAR<br />
OR JAHANGIR, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH<br />
CENTURY<br />
Of rectangular form, deeply carved with elegant<br />
foral bouquets rising from a bulbous vase, fanked<br />
by lidded cups, beneath a squat lobed arch<br />
25 x 33in. (63.5 x 83.8cm.)<br />
£6,000-8,000 $8,600-11,000<br />
€7,500-10,000<br />
PROVENANCE:<br />
Private collection, London, acquired before 1994<br />
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This panel would very probably have been<br />
produced for a Mughal building in the Agra<br />
or Fatehpur Sikri area. It is carved in a fne<br />
Mathura red sandstone, typical of the Mughal<br />
architectural decoration of the late Akbar period<br />
and the beginning of the reign of Jahangir (circa<br />
1590-1615). Related foral panels decorate<br />
the wall of the east side of the Naqqar Khana,<br />
facing the Diwan-i Am at the Red Fort at Delhi.<br />
Although the fowers almost appear to be<br />
identifable, this realism is misleading as most<br />
Mughal artists abstracted their fower designs<br />
from basic types, such as lily, poppy or rose<br />
(Louise Nicholson, The Red Fort, Delhi, London,<br />
1989). Panels showing vessels in trompe-l’oeil,<br />
such as the two small covered bowls in the<br />
present piece, are called Chini Khana. This<br />
type of architectural decoration was popular in<br />
Safavid Iran and Mughal India. Such panels can<br />
be seen at the Gate Pavilion of the Suraj Bhan ka<br />
Bagh and the Kanch Mahal at Sikandra .<br />
17<br />
A WHITE MARBLE JALI<br />
MUGHAL <strong>INDIA</strong>, PERIOD <strong>OF</strong> AKBAR<br />
OR JAHANGIR, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH<br />
CENTURY<br />
Of rectangular form, the elegant openwork<br />
geometric lattice composed of seven-pointed<br />
fower blooms arranged within large circular<br />
compositions, one long side with fange<br />
24 x 15Ωin. ( 61 x 38cm.)<br />
£4,000-6,000 $5,700-8,500<br />
€5,000-7,500<br />
PROVENANCE:<br />
Private collection, London, acquired before 1994<br />
This carved marble jali was very probably part of<br />
a balustrade, as indicated by the narrow fange<br />
along one of its sides. See for instance the<br />
balustrade of the Peerless Pool (Anup Talao) in<br />
the Daulat Khana at Fatehpur Sikri which shows<br />
closely related panels (Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi<br />
and Vincent John Adams Flynn, Fathpur-Sikri,<br />
Bombay, 1975, pl. 19).<br />
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18 No Lot<br />
14<br />
Opposite: Lot 25 (detail)
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