03/03/2026
Available:
A SEA MONSTER DEVOURING A SHIP
India, Provincial Mughal, probably Awadh
Circa 1780-1800
Folio: 28.5 cm x 20.3 cm
Miniature: 21.2 cm x 16.5 cm
On an album page with a repeating motif of a single upright leaf in gold.
Verso has a repeating motif of a stem with three leaves and a narrow ornamental border, numbered 29 in roman numerals in black ink at top.
Provenance-
Private collection UK
Simon Ray London, 2011
Bonhams, Indian and Islamic Art, 7 October 2010, lot 324.
Sotheby’s Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art, New York, 22 March 1989, lot 76.