Shah Jahan

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Shah Jahan is depicted on a throne called at the time the 'Jewelled Throne' but which later became known as the 'Peacock Throne'. This painting bequeathed by Lady Wantage in 1921 as a genuine painting of his reign was subsequently identified as a later copy of a lost original, probably done in Delhi or Lucknow in about 1800.

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Categories	Paintings Royalty Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Painting
Title	Shah Jahan (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour on paper Paint Paper Opaque Watercolour Painted
Brief description	Painting, Shah Jahan enthroned, after a 17th century original, opaque watercolour on paper, Mughal, ca. 1800
Physical description	Painting, opaque watercolour on paper, depicting Shah Jahan enthroned, after a 17th century original.
Dimensions	Height: 386mm Width: 270mm Image within innermost painted borders height: 162mm Image within inntermost painted borders width: 120mm 29/05/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013
Content description	Shah Jahan enthroned.
Style	Mughal
Credit line	Bequeathed by Lady Wantage
Object history	Part of the bequest of the Right Honourable Harriet Sarah Baroness Wantage, of Locking House, Wantage Berks, widow of the first and last Baron Wantage, V.C., K.C.B., V.D. R.P. 1920-8342, 1920-5869, 1921-3081, 1921-177
Production	a late copy of a lost original of ca. 1640
Subjects depicted	Throne Emperor Shah Jahan
Summary	Shah Jahan is depicted on a throne called at the time the 'Jewelled Throne' but which later became known as the 'Peacock Throne'. This painting bequeathed by Lady Wantage in 1921 as a genuine painting of his reign was subsequently identified as a later copy of a lost original, probably done in Delhi or Lucknow in about 1800.
Bibliographic references	Clarke, C. Stanley; Indian Drawings: Thirty Mogul Paintings of the School of Jehangir and Four Panels of Calligraphy ini the Wantage Bequest. London 1922 No. 16, pl. 10 S. Stronge, " Thrones of the Mughal Emperors of Hindustan", Jewellery Studies, vol. 10, London, 2004, p. 60, fig. 10.
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IM.113-1921

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Record created	September 30, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O168139/shah-jahan-painting/

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