PORTRAIT OF HAZRAT KHWAJA QUTBUDDIN BAKHTIAR KAKI (1173-1235)
Deccan India, 19th/20th Century

PORTRAIT OF HAZRAT KHWAJA QUTBUDDIN BAKHTIAR KAKI (1173-1235)
Deccan India, 19th/20th Century

Pencil and opaque polychrome pigments on paper, the bearded Chishti saint seated on a floral ground against a blue Mughal bolster, rosary in hand, flanked by cypresses and irises beyond a jali balcony wall, ‘image of Hazrat Khwaja Qutbuddin’ in pencil to the right of the turban, in dark green mount, framed and glazed, 30.5cm x 20cm, 44.5cm x 32cm including frame.