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Ranjit Singh

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Londen, The Wallace Collection, Ranjit Singh, Text by Colonel James Skinner, copied by Muhammad Bakhsh, illustrated by unknown Company School artists, Tazkirat al-umara (Biographies of the Nobles), Lahore, Punjab or Delhi, dated 13 Muharram AH 1252 – 29 april 1836 CE, ink, pencil and gouache heightened with gold on paper and board.

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Unknown artist, The cremation of Maharaja Ranjit Singh with four queens – Rani Mehtab Devi, Rani Har Devi, Rani Raj Devi and Rani Rajno Devi – and seven maidservants, Kangra or Lahore, about 1840, gouache heightened with gold on paper.

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Attributed to Kehar Singh, Shahzada (zoon van een Shah) Sher Singh, Lahore, about 1835 – 1838, watercolour heightened with gold on paper.

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August Schoefft, Maharaja Sher Singh on his father’s golden throne, Lahore, Punjab or Delhi, about 1841 – 1842, oil on panel.

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Ranjit Singh

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Londen, The Wallace Collection, Ranjit Singh, Unknown arourer, Personal dagger of Colonel James Skinner, North-India, late 18th century or early 19th century, steel, gold, black and white jade, turquoise, wood and velvet.

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DSC00602TheWallaceCollectionRanjitSinghUnknownCraftsmanQuiverAndArrowsPresentedByASikhChiefToWilliamFraserPunjabEarly19thCentury

Wat een vreemde positie voor een foto kun je denken, maar dit was de enige manier die ik kon bedenken om de foto te maken zonder schittering van het glas waaronder dit voorwerp lag. Unknown craftsman, Quiver and arrows presented by a Sikh chief to William Fraser, Punjab, early 19th century, leather, steel, gilt-silver thread, glass beads, munj grass shafts and polychrome.

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Unknown armourer, Shield bearing portraits of figures at the Lahore Durbar and hunting scenes, Punjab, probably 1850 – 1870, watered steel, iron, gold and paste.

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Ranjit Singh

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Vandaag zag ik nog een verzameling wapens in Jaipur.
Ze zijn interessant om te vergelijken met de voorwerpen
in deze collectie.
Ze zullen later zeker op deze site verschijnen.

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Londen, The Wallace Collection, Ranjit Singh, Unknown Company school artist working for Colonel James Skinner, A horseman in Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s service, Delhi, about 1815, folio from the Skinner Album, watercolour on paper.

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The Wallace Collection, Ranjit Singh, Reconstructie.

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Unknown armourer, Gilded and gem-set shield of Hari Singh Nalwa, Lahore, Punjab, about 1824 – 1825, steel, gold, gems, velvet, cotton and silver thread.

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Achterzijde van het schild.

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Unknown carver, Character studies of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (right) and General Hari Singh Nalwa, Punjab, mid-19th century, ivory and pigment.

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Unknown carver, Character studies of General Hari Singh Nalwa.

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