Deccani, Golconda (ca. 1700)

RULER VISITED BY A PRINCE ON A TERRACE AT NIGHT. Gouache and gold on paper, 229 x 143 mm (9 x 5 5/8”) plus decorative floral borders. Some wrinkling and rubbing.

This miniature was made roughly three hundred years ago in Golconda, one of the most affluent cities of medieval and early modern India. Golconda is located on the Deccan plain, an area to the south-east of present-day Bombay. Between 1512 and 1687, the city was the centre of an independent kingdom ruled by the Qutb Shahi, a Shia Muslim dynasty.

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