Aurangzeb

Lot 186. An equestrian portrait of Aurangzeb, Mughal India, circa 1700. Opaque pigments and gold on paper, backed on cream card. Folio 11 3/8 x 8 ins. (28.7 x 20.4 cm.). Estimate USD 50,000 - USD 70,000. Price realised USD 87,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019 Provenance: Sir John Murray MacGregor, with Simon Ray, 2016. Christie's. Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence, New York, 19 June 2019

Lot 127. A large portrait of Emperor Alamgir (Aurangzeb) at the age of sixty, India, Deccan, probably Golconda, circa 1700, gouache with gold on paper, inscribed on reverse in ink in Persian 'Aurangzeb' and in Latin 'Arangseeb etatis sue: 60 an', framed, 42.9 by 27.5cm. Estimate 15,000 — 25,000 GBP. Lot sold 18,750 GBP. Courtesy Sotheby's 2017. Provenance: From an album probably commissioned in India by a Dutch traveller circa 1700.Sold in these rooms  13/14 April 1976, lot... [Lire la suite]

LOS ANGELES.- Among the most surprising aspects of Rembrandt’s prodigious output are twenty-three surviving drawings closely based on portraits made by artists working in Mughal India. These drawings mark a striking diversion for this quintessentially Dutch “Golden Age” artist, the only time he made a careful and extensive study of art from a dramatically different culture. Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India, on view March 13 –June 24, 2018, at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, explores for the first... [Lire la suite]

Lot 191. A highly-important imperial Mughal spinel, inscribed with the names of emperors Jahangir, Prince Khurram and ‘Alamgir (Aurangzeb), India, dated 1024 AH/1615 AD and 1070 AH/1659 AD. Estimate 60,000 — 80,000 GBP. Lot sold 272,750 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's 2017. the pinkish stone weighing approximately 54.5 carats, incised with nasta'liq calligraphy, pierced through the centre and set with a later gold chain and hanging seed-pearl and metal-thread pendant, in bespoke velvet-lined box, with... [Lire la suite]