Beschreibung:

gouache and gold on paper, laid down on an album page with borders decorated with lions pursuing a deer in gold on a dark blue ground, painting 165 x 112 mm.; album page 325 x 210 mm. The Mughal Emperor Humayun (reg. 1530-40 & 1555-56) seated on a canopied dais on a terrace, Mughal, 17th Century, gouache and gold on paper, the date AH 1018/AD 1609-10 on the base of the dais, a further inscription added on painted surface Pir Muhammad 1025 [AD 1616-17], laid down on an album page with stylised floral inner borders, the outer borders with fine intertwining floral motifs in gold on an olive-green ground, painting 118 x 65 mm.; album page 294 x 193 mm. Maidens taking shelter from an approaching thunderstorm, Provincial Mughal, 18th Century, gouache and gold on paper, laid down on an album page with gilt-decorated borders depicting animals in a forest, painting 202 x 140 mm., album page 315 x 200 mm. Todi Ragini: a maiden seated in a landscape with a deer, Provincial Mughal, Deccan, 18th Century, gouache and gold on paper, inner borders decorated in colours and gold, outer borders with stylised floral sprays, painting 115 x 90 mm.; album page 360 x 225 mm. A maiden in a landscape with peacocks, probably a ragamala scene, Provincial Mughal, 18th Century, gouache and gold on paper, seal impression in nasta'liq script on painted surface, inner margins ruled in colours and gold, gilt-decorated outer borders depicting lions and birds amidst their natural habitat painting 153 x 100 mm.; album page 312 x 197 mm.(5)