Set of Three Anglo-Indian Miniatures

This board is sandalwood and is intricately inlaid with geometric marquetry and ebonised lines as well as the pierced oblong panels required for the game. the back is set with an old...

This historical portrait of a Lady, was chosen for exhibition at the "Palace of History" in the Scottish Exhibition in Glasgow in 1911. She is fashionably dressed in evening clothes...

Graduated set of three Victorian papier mâché trays, with serpentine ogee borders, inlaid with mother'o pearl floral sprays and gilded, with scrollwork edging. Trays measure 31" x 24...

These three panels originally adorned the Palace Cinema in Montreal. This Theatre predated sound and was built to the highest standard. .The designer was Howard Crane of Detroit .Th...

This charming Orientalist watercolor has everything : A secluded courtyard, a pretty girl , two pigeons and a monkey. This is a well-painted scene by a talented watercolorist at the ...

George Watson Barratt 1884-1962 was a prominent New York illustrator in the first half of the 20th century. This painting is of an artist, his easel and ...

This Mughal miniature was painted at one of the princely courts of India. It depicts a raven-haired princess in a gold-trimmed saffron-colored silk sari. Under a glowering evening sky she dawdles on a white marble terrace, with a pet fawn on a leash, before a landscape dotted with buildings nestled amongst trees beyond a river. Her hair, falling loosely about her shoulders, rather than carefully dressed on her head, indicates that she is a maiden. The overall mood is one of expectancy. Perhaps walking a pet and catching an evening breeze is a pretext to escape palace scrutiny for a lovers’ assignation. In Mughal India tender sentiments were a bridge to the erotic – and if this seems contradictory, so too is the balance of realism and caricature, and naturalism with the schematic. Both are hallmarks of miniatures painted in this place and time. The earliest Mughal Indian miniatures date to the 16th century. They were inspired by those painted at the refined Moslem courts of the neighboring Persian empire. They incorporated figures in spite of the Moslem faith’s proscription against depicting the human form. Such was the nature of sophisticated courtly life everywhere that beauty and pleasure trumped systems of morality. This was no less the case at the provincial Indian courts, where our miniature, marked by a charming pictorial naiveté, was most likely painted. Yet the artist was undeniably accomplished. His command of perspective, introduced by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century, is seen in the landscape, which rolls back to a distant horizon, contrary to the flat two-dimensional ones following Indian-painting traditions. And if Mughal artists were influenced by Western art, the compliment was returned by Rembrandt and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others, who collected Indian miniatures (as did, perhaps, Giovanni Bellini who painted in Mughal style the famous miniature of a Persian man...

Enchanting vintage Anglo Indian Pishhwai gouache painting on cloth mounted on board, steeped in alagorical context, depicting Krishna dancing with villagers in a background of birds ...

Vintage pair of Anglo Indian watercolors depicting men on horseback decorated with gold leaf floral and geometric designs. Presented in wood frames with gold leaf under glass.

A colorful and varied collection of Indian miniatures with one possibly a Persian piece. Collection of four vintage miniatures presented in various frames. One with translation adher...

A set of antique late 19th-century Indian minitature paintings. Watercolor on paper. Company school. A total of 12 items. The artworks depict scenes of everyday life. White mat, buck...

Embark on a journey through time with this extraordinary antique Anglo-Indian Grand Tour Era Miniature Taj Mahal Painting, nestled within a beautifully carved rosewood frame. Dating ...