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Parrot, India, Company School, circa 1820-30
Gouache on pape…
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240
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Parrot, India, Company School, circa 1820-30
Gouache on pape…
See original version (French)
Estimate €800 - €1,200
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Description
Parrot, India, Company School, circa 1820-30
Gouache on paper depicting a parrot on a tree branch, a butterfly with outstretched wings in the upper right-hand corner. Numbered 19 in the upper right corner and mounted as an album page on oriental paper numbered and titled in ink with the bird's scientific and vernacular names in phonetics: "N°12, Psittacus gingianus, Hill Parrot, Tothur". Framed.
Total size on sight: 30.5 x 25 cm; size of painting on sight: 21 x 18 cm.
Slight foxing and stains.
Provenance: Sotheby's sale, London, 10 December 1974, lot 246.
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Archaeology & Arts of Islam and India
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06/26/2026 at 1:30 PM
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