AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF A SIKH GENERAL
Punjab Hills, Northern India, 20th century

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the vertical composition depicting a haloed Sikh general, wearing a light blue turban with an emerald-encrusted sarpech,riding a black horse with his right hand on the reigns and the left on the horse’s neck, the horse’s harness bejewelled, framed within bright yellow, red and grey borders, 33.5cm x 24cm.