India
The weighing of the Shah Jahan for his 42nd lunar birthday. Detail.
Painting, illumination, gouache on paper 1635 approximately 15 x 18 cm
From the “Padshahnama”. Two times a year, the equivalent of the Emperor’s weight was distributed in gold, silver and other goods to the dignitaries, noblemen and merchants
The weighing of the Shah Jahan for his 42nd lunar birthday
Painting, illumination, gouache on paper 1635 approximately 31.8 x 21.2 cm
U.K., Windsor Castle, Royal Library
From the “Padshahnama”. Two times a year, the equivalent of the Emperor’s weight was distributed in gold, silver and other goods to the dignitaries, noblemen and merchants
1. Wife of a Rajah.
2. Professional dancer.
3. Favorite of the Grand Mogol.
4. Young woman of Burma
Print, colored 1840 approximately 9.6 x 15 cm
Amirault (drawing)
At ball given for His Majesty the king of Cambodia Bal donné à S. M. le roi de Cambodge.
Print, woodcut 1865 approximately 12.3 x 18 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
A ball given in Saigon, at the Governmanet Palace
Vietnam, Indochina ballroom royalty L’Illustration. Paris, 1865?, p. 60.
Philippoteaux (drawing); Saunier (engraving)
Wife of a Raja. Slave.
Print, lithograph, color 1820 approximately 120.5 x 12.5 cm
Dance of nautch girls before the Prince of Wales at the native entertainment, Calcutta
Print 1876 30 x 22.6 cm
Performers in the palace. The sacred water rite and confirmation of the title of H.R.H. the Crown Prince of Siam, Bangkok
Print 1887 6.7 x 11 cm
Hatherell, W. (drawing); Cray, J. A. (sketch)
A nautch girl dancing before the Amir of Afghanistan
Print 1893 30.5 x 21.8 cm
Procession ofteh Pera-hara at Kandy Procession of the Pera-hara at Kandy
Print, wood 1892 13 x 14.5 cm
Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis
Prince Albert Victor and Prince George on board the “Bacchante”
Girls dancing and playing music in front of a raja and his ladies celebrating spring in a garden pavillion
Painting, manuscript illustration 1770 approximately 39.7 x 26.4 cm
From Udaipur. India
Barathier, Mathieu (Narbonne, France 1784-1867)
Nautch dancing in front of a prince
Painting, pastel on paper stuck on canvas 1849 approximately 63 x 48 cm
France, Narbonne, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Unsigned, undated