DARA SHIKOH
MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1660-70
DARA SHIKOH MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1660-70 Tinted drawing heightened with gold on paper, a bust portrait of the nimbate prince, who is depicted wearing gold embroidered robes and turban, a string of pearls on each, in his left hand he holds an emerald, laid down between polychrome rules and wide blue border decorated with gold irises on a wide pink margin with polychrome outer rule, identification inscription in the upper margin, the reverse with 8ll. of elegant black nasta'liq on green ground containing verses from Jami's Yusuf wa Zulaykha , laid down between pink borders and polychrome rules on wide buff borders Painting 7 1/8 x 4 5/8in. (18.1 x 11.8cm.); folio 14¾ x 9 7/8in. (37.5 x 25.2cm.)
DARA SHIKOH
MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1660-70
DARA SHIKOH MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1660-70 Tinted drawing heightened with gold on paper, a bust portrait of the nimbate prince, who is depicted wearing gold embroidered robes and turban, a string of pearls on each, in his left hand he holds an emerald, laid down between polychrome rules and wide blue border decorated with gold irises on a wide pink margin with polychrome outer rule, identification inscription in the upper margin, the reverse with 8ll. of elegant black nasta'liq on green ground containing verses from Jami's Yusuf wa Zulaykha , laid down between pink borders and polychrome rules on wide buff borders Painting 7 1/8 x 4 5/8in. (18.1 x 11.8cm.); folio 14¾ x 9 7/8in. (37.5 x 25.2cm.)
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