**Originally Listed At $300**

South Asia, India, late 19th to early 20th century CE. A colorful painting on fabric, perhaps silk, that depicts a Mughal elephant royal procession before a white palace with blue skies above, the ruler sitting in a luxurious golden chair carried upon an elaborately adorned elephant, the sacred animal bedecked with jewels and enveloped with luxurious textiles, accompanied by a procession of men in turbans, long robes, and sashes who carry banners and weapons for the occasion. All is surrounded by a floral-patterned border in salmon pink and silver on a black ground. Size: 10.5" L x 6.875" W (26.7 cm x 17.5 cm); 11.875" L x 8.25" W (30.2 cm x 21 cm) framed

Provenance: ex Estate of Eldert Bontekoe, Pegasi Numismatics, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA acquired before 2000

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Normal fraying to edges of the fabric. Painting is vivid and the fabric is set upon an onion-skin like paper that shows an impression of the painted imagery.