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Lot 313

A fine Mughal red sandstone Chini Kana panel, North India, first quarter 17th century Of...

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Lot 313

A fine Mughal red sandstone Chini Kana panel,
North India, first quarter 17th century
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Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000

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Lot 313

Description

A fine Mughal red sandstone Chini Kana panel,
North India, first quarter 17th century

Of rectangular form, the large central niche with cusped foliate arch containing a long-necked flask (surahi) and two covered bowls, with variegated leaves to interstices, large flower blooms to upper corners and smaller ones to lower,  

53.7 x 41.9 cm.

This revetment compares closely to those on early 17th century buildings such as the Kanch Mahal and Suraj Bhank Ka Bagh at Sikander, near Agra. See Koch, Mughal Architecture, New York, 1991, figs 99 & 100.

Provenance:

Acquired in the early 1990s from the London art trade 

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This kind of decoration is referred to as chini kana, a term meaning "China room", and applied to small wall-niches in which bottles, vases and other vessels were placed within a domestic interior.

Similar flasks, arranged in niches carved in red sandstone, are illustrated in M. Zebrowski, Gold, Silver and Bronze from Mughal India, 1997, p. 185, pl. 269. This decoration can be seen at the Gate Pavilion of the Suraj Bhan ka Bagh at Sikandra near Agra and dates from the early seventeenth century. The exterior walls of another early seventeenth century palace at Sikandra, the Kanch Mahal, are also decorated with similar flasks in niches. According to Zebrowski, these motifs may originally have had a connection with the "waters of fertility" but it seems likely that by the seventeenth century they were appreciated more and simply for their elegant and stylised shapes. A comparable red sandstone chini kana panel was sold; Christie's London, 23 September 2005, lot 81 and Peter Petrou: Tales of the Unexpected 30 January 2019, Lot 31

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