A PAIR OF INDIAN POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND ILLUMINATED CELEBRATORY PANELS
Northern India, dated Shaban 1324 AH (September 1906 AD)

A PAIR OF INDIAN POLYCHROME-PAINTED AND ILLUMINATED CELEBRATORY PANELS
Northern India, dated Shaban 1324 AH (September 1906 AD)

Opaque pigments, black ink, and gold leaf on thick card, each panel presenting a similar vertical-format composition with minor variations, featuring the facade and main entrance of a typical Northern Indian building surmounted by a large stylised version of the British coat of arms of the chivalric Order of the Garter (Honi soit qui mal y pense) with rampant horse and spotted lion on the sides, the two animals holding a red tughra roundel in gold diwani script reading Nur Mohammad Mo'in Sultan and the date 1320 AH (1902 AD), above it the Ottoman crescent and star symbol, the ogival arch in the lower architectural register in-filled with black ink free-flowing nasta'liq inscriptions contained in orange-highlighted lobed cartocuhes, with sabk-e Hendi poetic hemistiches and laudatory, honorific statements to a high-member of society (Huwa al-Mo'in), one inscribed submitted by Seyyed Mohammad Kamel Kazemi, the latter recommended by Mohammad Kabuli, both dated 1324 AH at the bottom within a stylised lota vase flanked by a pair of peacocks, each set within black rules, and concentric decorative borders in yellow, gold with floral sprays in polychromes, and green, mounted, glazed and framed, the largest panel 49.5cm x 38cm, each 55.5cm x 44cm including the frame.

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Dimensions: the largest panel 49.5cm x 38cm, each 55.5cm x 44cm including the frame