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Krishna in a palace courtyard
Folio from the Polier Album
Bikaner, early eighteenth century
Opaque pigments with gold on paper, laid down in an album page, the narrow blue borders with a meander of gold leaves, the wider white border with arabesques of polychrome flowers; on the reverse a blank panel surrounded by similar borders
18.4 by 8.5 cm., 7 ¼ by 3 3/8 in. painting
39.6 by 29 cm., 15 1/8 by 11 3/8 in. folio
Provenance
Colonel Antoine Polier (1741-95), Faizabad and Lucknow
Howell & Stewart, before 1834
Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt. (1792-1872): his sale, Sotheby’s, Oriental Manuscripts, Indian and Persian Miniatures, London, 27 November 1974, lot 735
Galerie Kevorkian, Paris, 1970s
Françoise and Claude Bourelier, Paris, 1970s-2014

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