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A peri holding an effigy of the sun rides a composite lion (MS M.787).

Accession number
MS M.787
Object title
A peri holding an effigy of the sun rides a composite lion (MS M.787).
Created
Kashmir, probably third quarter of the 18th century.
Description
1 single leaf : paper on card, ill. ; 343 x 222 mm
Provenance
Purchased from Demotte and Company, New York, through Herbert P. Weissberger, 1935.
Notes
Ms. single leaf miniature; illuminated in Kashmir, probably in the third quarter of the eighteenth century.
Miniature measures 235 x 143 mm. See a nearly identical leaf at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, MS accession number 63.12, illustrated and described in Linda York Leachy, Mughal and Other Indian Paintings from the Chester Beatty Library, London, Scorpion Cavendish, 1995, vol. II, p. 966, no. 9.701, illus. p. 967.
Century