MUGHAL INDIA, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

A number of comparable pieces to this powder horn are known, some of which can be traced in European inventories to the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. A particularly elaborate example was in the collection of Prince Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony in 1658, while one in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection is very similar to ours (D. Alexander, The Arts of War, Oxford, 1992, pl. 115, p. 182). Another powder horn previously in the collection of Simon Digby was sold in these Rooms, 7 April 2011, lot 217.