18th Jan, 2023 14:30

Erotica: Objects of Desire

 
  Lot 200
 

A 'MIRROR FOR PRINCES' MANUAL ON CODE OF CONDUCTS AND THE MISCHIEVOUS NATURE OF WOMEN

A 'MIRROR FOR PRINCES' MANUAL ON CODE OF CONDUCTS AND THE MISCHIEVOUS NATURE OF WOMEN

Persian manuscript on wove paper, 28 ff. and 2 fly-leaves all set on modern burnished cream-coloured paper, with 8-14ll. of black ink nasta'liq script to the page, the text mixing regular vertical and chalipa diagonal formats on several pages, featuring 24 polychrome-painted illustrations with numerous court and love-making scenes in typical Indian interiors and natural landscapes, one particularly well-known with a prince and courtesan making love in front of a blind-folded man milking a cow, the illustrations inconsequential to the text, set within concentric black and red rules, the last page dated, in a tooled brown leather binding embossed with typical Persian-style lobed arabesque medallions in the centre, the text panel 14.5cm x 7.5cm, the folio 20.5cm x 13.5cm, Kashmir, Northern India, dated 1204 AH (1789/90 AD)


 

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