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An antique Indian Mughal Empire miniature painting executed in gouache and embellished with gold on paper, portrays a captivating court scene wherein a ruler engages with nobles. The...

An antique Indian miniature painting portraying a seated sultan holding a sword. Miniature paintings like this one are renowned for their intricate detailing, vibrant colors, and storytelling elements. In this artwork, the seated sultan is depicted with regal attire, holding a sword, symbolizing his authority and martial prowess. Inscribed on top. This particular miniature painting serves as a valuable historical artifact, providing insights into the artistic and cultural heritage of India. Circa the mid late 19th century. Matted and framed. Antique Indian Paintings...

An antique Indian Mughal School painting, executed in body color on paper, depicting a court scene in the middle. Surrounded by eight portraits of emperors, each meticulously rendered and signed to the side. Dating back to the mid to late 18th century. Framed. Antique Indian Miniature Paintings...

An antique 18th century Indian miniature depicting the Indian Mughal princess Nadira Banu Begum, who lived from 1618 to 1659. On the back, on the frame, there is an inscription: Nadira crosses the desert of Rajasthan. This lightful image belongs to the Rajput school, 16th to 19th centuries, spread in Central India and Rajasthan on the territory of the Rajput principalities. Its main centers are Bundi, Mewar, Marwar, Malwa, Kishangarh. Antique Indian Miniature, Illustration, Vintage Oriental Art...

Indian, 18th or early 19th century. This exquisite 18th-century Mughal School miniature painting is a masterful example of the rich artistic tradition that flourished under the Mugh...

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...

This is an antique Mughal School painting. An Indian, handpainted scene after the art featured in the Seven Thrones (c.1492), dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Delig...

20th century Indian Mughal School painting of figures in landscape India, Circa 1960s A fine example in subtle earth-tone organic colors of two beauties in landscape with a seate...