Beschreibung:

RECTO: Noble with Attendants Mughal school, circa 1680 gouache on paper heightened with gold; seated on a terrace, leaning against a large cushion, the noble wears a white jama and coloured turban, a katar in his waistband, the two attendants kneeling facing him, a vina , pan -box, sword and cup and cover before them, all dwarfed by a massive grey European style building with classical piers and architrave, the top right hand corner dissolving into clouds through which the sun's rays stream onto the noble, (slight rubbing and flaking), red border with gold floral details, similar narrow white panel below, buff leaf exquisitely painted with a variety of floral sprays forming a continuous band, the border signed by Muhammad Badhur, numbered upper right'32' VERSO: Two Persian Couplets Persia, Safavid, AH 1023/1614-5 AD manuscript on cream and buff paper, each separately worked in very good black nasta'liq , mounted together within gold clouds profusely illuminated with floral motifs, a blue panel above with applied decoupé white nasta'liq and the date 1023, surrounded by gold floral motifs, red inner border of gold palmette vine, gold outer border of black vine around naked damsels disporting themselves between birds, blue leaf with elegant interlaced gold flowering palmette tendrils, signed 'Muhammad Hadi' and dated 1172 (1758-9 AD), framed and glazed leaf 18½ x 12½in. (47 x 31.7cm.)