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Lot 122
Description
A Mughal jade archers ring, India, circa 1700, composed of a light green jade inlaid with gold scrolling flower heads, 4.2cm. diam.
Provenance: Private UK Collection, Raja Wazir Singh of Faridkot (1828-1874), and thence by descent
For comparison see Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, London, 20 April, 2016, Lot 155.
This jade archer's ring finds parallels in a number of museum collections, including the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, inv. no TKS: 2/83 and the Kusthistorisches Museum, Vienna, inv. no. 2218. (see J.M. Rogers and R.M. Ward, Suleyman the Magnificent (exh. cat.), British Museum, 1988, p.152, no.89; and D.J. Roxburgh (ed.), Turk- A Journey of a Thousand years, 600-1600 (exh. cat.), Royal Academy of Arts, London, 22 January - 12 April 2005, p.335, no.312: 'Thumb ring, 1550-1600, Istanbul, Turkey').
WAZIR SINGH, RAJA (1828-1874), succeeded in 1849 his father Raja Pahar Singh to the gaddi of Faridkot. A devout Sikh, Wazir Singh had received the rites of initiation at Gurdwara Sri Hazur Sahib, Nanded. sacred to Guru Gobind Singh. He founded new villages and introduced several reforms in the land revenue system. He also introduced a system of written plaints and himself held court. He placed his services at the disposal of the British government for the suppression of the 1857 rising and was rewarded with the title of Brar Bans Raja Sahib Bahadur and a salute of eleven guns. Raja Wazir Singh died at Kurukshetra on 21 April 1874 after a reign of 25 years and was succeeded by his son, Bikram Singh.
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