FOUR INDO-PERSIAN AND MUGHAL-REVIVAL PAINTINGS
Iran and India, 19th and 20th century

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, comprising a replica of a renowned late 16th-century painting of Abdullah Khan Uzbek II, the penultimate Shaybanid Khan of Bukhara, seated cross-legged with a white turban cutting melons from Samarkand with a sharp kard knife, several ripe melons lying on a tray in front of him and a bowl to gather their peel, mounted onto later album page border with white, gold, black rules, and dark and light blue concentric frames, the recto with several black ink annotations in Persian reading Abdullah Khan Uzbek, auspicious blessings and date 1256 AH in a different hand, 29.3cm x 20.6cm; two Mughal-revival hawking scenes, both set within polychrome-painted and gilt vegetal and floral borders, the largest 32.2cm x 24cm; and a Mughal-style polo scene with four players, the player on the dappled white steed reminiscent of young Aurangzeb, wearing a turban with a tall black feather, the recto with a black ink bold nasta'liq calligraphic composition with puns about the harvest, the draught and the plough, signed by Mohammad Ebrahim, the poetry in sabk-e Hendi, the composition set within a gold-painted floral border on a dark blue ground 25.5cm x 19.5cm.