A MUGHAL PRINCE PLAYING POLO
Bikaner, Rajasthan or Mughal Northern India, 18th century

Opaque pigments and gold on paper, the vertical composition depicting a young Mughal prince dressed with a flower-embroidered golden dress playing polo at sunset with two attendants, birds flying high in the orange-toned sky, the composition pasted onto a 19th-century red-washed cardboard border, the verso stamped with the Maharaja of Bikaner mark, last checking 16th June 1964, the inventory record signed by Khet Singh, 19.7cm x 12.8cm.