portrait of Muhammad Shah, Mughal Emperor of India (1719-48), circa 1720-30
gouache heightened with gold on paper, the Shah drawn in profile wearing jewels, his head surrounded by a nimbus and holding the mouthpiece of a hookah, laid down on card with floral and calligraphic borders, outer margin of watered paper with painted cartouches, flaking to miniature.
folio 21¼ x 14 in. (54 x 35.5 cm); miniature 8 x 4½ in. (20.2 x 11.4 cm)
* portrait of Muhammad Shah, Mughal Emperor of India (1719-48), circa 1720-30 * gouache heightened with gold on paper, the Shah drawn in profile wearing jewels, his head surrounded by a nimbus and holding the mouthpiece of a hookah, laid down on card wit