"Auspicious Meeting with Prince" Mughal Miniature Painting

The owners of this work of art were likely the only two people in the world lucky enough to have access to its beauty. The experience of art itself can be an intimate one, and this b...

Despite its explicit content, this intimate scene conveys a sense of tenderness and romantic love characteristic of Chinese erotic art. Known as “sp...

A scroll and a small lantern depicted in this 19th century painting suggest the romantic notion of a Chinese scholar painting in the evening hours. Re...

In celebration of the lunar New Year festival, it was traditional all over China to hang special decorations. In a city called Wuqiang, local artists made lacquer scroll paintings laden with symbolism. This framed and finely rendered early 20th century folk painting from Wuqiang features an imperial court official and his family dressed in their best silks. The young boy is dressed in a wonderfully patterned yellow robe to offer Shou Xing...

This beautifully detailed Tibetan folk painting dates to the mid-20th century and shares traditional knowledge in the style of painted Buddhist thangkas or manuscript cards. Intended...

Exquisitely painted with delicate line work and a subdued color palette, this Chinese scroll painting is an Late 20th-century reproduction of a...

Mughal style miniature painting - gouache on paper with silver highlights - hand painted - depicting a court scene with the Mughal Emperor Jahangir weighing his son, Prince Khurram, as part of his 15th birthday celebration, his weight measured in gold, this sum then dispersed to those in need, with prominently featured jeweled courtiers, all set against a grand display of royal wealth featuring daggers...

Mughal print after a 16th century Indian hand painting in wood gilt frame. Indian Mughal School, illuminated India Rajasthan Indian Mughal School, illumi...

Indian Mughal Miniature watercolor painting in white inlay frame Indo-Persian hand painted watercolor miniature watercolor painting in very fine art w...

A Mughal painting of a ‘Lion at rest’ North India, early 19th century ? Watercolour on paper, H. 46.5 x W. 68 cm ?The present painting is a large...

A painting of a caparisoned horse in mineral pigments (gouache) saddled and in rein painted with gold highlights circa early 19th century from Rajast...

A charming painting of Lord Krishna and his paramour Radha painted in mineral pigments (gouache) with gold and silver highlights circa mid 19th century in Jaipur style of painting. Krishna was a god (an incarnation of god Vishnu) who accomplished great feats and defeated insurmountable demons. However, he is also considered the most playful amongst gods and an epic lover of godly proportions. His love story with Radha (a married woman) has been the subject of much poetry and worship for centuries as it symbolized the divine love. Here, the lovers are depicted in a loving embrace offering one another a lotus flower. Radha is often depicted hopelessly resisting Krishna's advances as in this painting. The couple's heads are circled by a halo, signifying their divinity. The setting is typical of the interior modeling in the 19th century with use of heavy curtains...