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A RARE DRAWING OF AN ELEPHANT ESCAPING CAPTIVITY, KOTA SCHOOL
奥地利 北京时间
2022年03月11日 开拍
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A RARE DRAWING OF AN ELEPHANT ESCAPING CAPTIVITY, KOTA SCHOOL
India, Rajasthan, c. 1840. Ink and watercolors on paper. The mighty animal is depicted in a dynamic posture with its front leg raised still bearing the remnants of a broken chain. A bell is attached to its back. Finely executed with sensitive eyes.

Published: Maggs Bros., Oriental Miniatures and Illumination, Bulletin No. 30, January 1979, Plate XXI.
Provenance: Maggs Bros., Berkeley Square, London, 11 March 1979. English private collection, acquired from the above. The reverse with a typed paper label, ‘Kotah, c. 1840. Pen drawing of an elephant, touched with colour. Purchased from Maggs Bros., Berkely Square, London, 11 March 1979. Illustrated in Maggs bulletin no. 30 of January 1979, Plate XXI’. With the original Maggs Bros. description for this lot, cut out and mounted by the previous owner, ‘[36] Kotah Artist: c. 1840. An elephant stands with his front foot tethered to a post [sic]. Pen drawing touched with colour, on paper: 51/2 x 61/4 in. £185. [See Plate XXI] Edges frayed, just affecting tail of elephant; slight staining.’ Maggs Bros. Ltd. is one of the longest-established antiquarian booksellers in the world, established in 1853 by Uriah Maggs, born c. 1828 in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. Maggs Bros. sold the penis of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1924, and pulled off the greatest bookselling coup of the inter-war period, when in 1932 they successfully negotiated with the government of Soviet Russia to acquire not only a Gutenberg Bible, but also the celebrated Codex Sinaiticus. All four of Uriah's sons eventually joined the business, taking over on his retirement in 1894. Maggs Bros. is still under family ownership, and as of 2018 was managed by Edward Maggs.
Condition: Good condition with minor wear, soiling, staining, creasing, minimal tears to edges, few small losses.

Dimensions: Image size 15.5 x 13.5 cm, total size 33 x 30.5 cm (including frame). Matted and framed behind glass.

Auction result comparison: Compare a related Kota School miniature painting of a running elephant at Sotheby’s London, 24 October 2017, lot 326, sold for GBP 12,500.

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