Exotica Sale
Catalog Information: 164 lots with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 65: A GOLD ICOSAHEDRON BOX FROM THE TREASURY OF TIPU SULTAN TAKEN AFTER THE BATTLE OF SERINGAPATAM,
A GOLD ICOSAHEDRON BOX FROM THE TREASURY OF TIPU SULTAN TAKEN AFTER THE BATTLE OF SERINGAPATAM, MAY 4TH, 1799, INDIA, 17TH OR 18TH CENTURYmade of beaten gold, of polyhedral form comprised of twenty isosceles ornamented triangles, each triangular face [...more]
Lot 66: HENRY SINGLETON, R.A. 1766-1839 THE LAST EFFORT AND FALL OF TIPPOO SULTAUN
oil on canvasLITERATURE AND REFERENCESMildred Archer, India and British Portraiture 1770-1825, London, 1979, p.431CATALOGUE NOTEThis dramatic composition is the third in a series of four pictures which Singleton painted c.1800. The other three compo [...more]
Lot 67: THE ASSAULT AND TAKING OF SERINGAPATAM AFTER THE PAINTING BY HENRY SINGLETON, SIGNED "THE SLAVE OF
THE ASSAULT AND TAKING OF SERINGAPATAM AFTER THE PAINTING BY HENRY SINGLETON, SIGNED "THE SLAVE OF THE KING, 'ABDULLAH", QAJAR, PERSIA, DATED 1252 HIJRA / A.D.1836-7oil on canvas, framedCATALOGUE NOTEinscription in persian:"The assault and capture of [...more]
Lot 68: THE SURRENDER OF TIPU'S TWO SONS AS HOSTAGES AFTER THE PAINTING BY HENRY SINGLETON, QAJAR, PERSIA,
THE SURRENDER OF TIPU'S TWO SONS AS HOSTAGES AFTER THE PAINTING BY HENRY SINGLETON, QAJAR, PERSIA, 19TH CENTURYoil on canvas, framedCATALOGUE NOTEThis intriguing painting by a Qajar artist after Henry Singleton's painting of The Surrender of the Two [...more]
Lot 69: A PORTRAIT OF TIPU SULTAN, MYSORE, SOUTH INDIA, CIRCA 1800
pencil and watercolour on paper, with pen and ink inscription top right "Tippoo Sultan, Killed 1st May 1799. Painted by a Native", wood frameCATALOGUE NOTEThe composition is very close to a portrait of Tipu Sultan in the collection of Marquis Wellesl [...more]
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