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MUGHAL INDIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY Pencil, transparent and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the narrow gold borders with scrolling floral motifs, with wide buff margins, verso with 9ll. of black nasta'liq within clouds reserved against a gold ground with polychrome flowers on scrolling tendrils, with dark blue borders and buff margins, mounted, glazed and framed Painting 7 ? x 4in. (18.5 x 10cm.); folio 15 3/8 x 11in.(39 x 28cm.)
Prince Suleyman Shikoh (1635-62) was the eldest son of Dara Shikoh, who like his father was killed by his uncle Aurangzeb. There is a very similar nim-qalam portrait of the prince by the artist Ramdas in the Royal Collection, London (RCIN 1005069.e), dated to circa 1650-60. There he is depicted in a plain jama with a fur stole, his hands resting on a katar (dagger) and a shield, a talwar (sword) hanging in front. The background details in the Royal Collection portrait are thought to be later additions.
For another comparable portrait of Prince Dara Shikoh attributed to La’l Chand which sold at auction recently, see Christie’s, New York, 19 June 2019, lot 185.