MUGHAL INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

This folio comes from an album probably produced in Awadh around 1770-1780, typified by the brightly coloured floral designs on the verso. Very similar floral illumination appears on the margins of an album leaf in the Nasli and Alice Heermaneck Collection, attributed to Awadh and dateable to 1775-80. Similar borders were produced for the album made for Colonel Antoine Polier who was the engineer and architect for the Nawab of Awadh (Joseph M.Dye III, The Arts of India, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2001, no.97, p.265).