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(PATNA SCHOOL.) [Muharram Festival Procession]. Exquisite Patna Kalam gouache on mica set against a dark mount. 7x9 inches; framed 11½x13½ inches overall; small repairs at lower edge. See Pratapaditya Pal and Vidya Dehejia, From Merchants to Emperors: British Artists and India 1775-1930, Cornell University Press, 1986, fig. 167 for a strikingly similar example in the Paul F. Walter Collection. North India, circa 1820
Muharram celebrates the 7th-century death in battle of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the prophet Muhammed and also marks the beginning of the Islamic New Year.
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