A miniature portrait of Shah Jahan, Deccan, 18th century

gouache with gold on paper, laid down on an album page with gold-sprinkled blue paper

Ex-collects ion Percival Chater Manuk (1873-1946), who bequeathed a large number of paintings and objects to the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the Bristol Museum. The residue of his collects ion was sold in 1948-49.
Ex-collects ion Charles F. Ramus (1902-79). Ramus was an American artist known for his drawings, engravings and prints. He was born in Denver, Colorado in 1902 and died in Englewood, Colorado in 1979.
Butterfields, San Francisco, 1998