Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Art & Sculpture Once cherished

Once cherished

this piece of furniture would prove to be a light in a dark corner

both inscribed New York and with postally used stamps with postmark to one inscribed Liverpool and dated 1904

there is some light overall discolouration and evidence of earlier foxing

Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Art & Sculpture Once cherishedOrigin: Bengal, India Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Formerly of the Estate of Henry G. Plowden Esq. Date: c. 1800 The Works: 12. 25 x 15 each In Frames: 20 x 22. 25 each The wonderfully realised pair of Calcutta School Studies in watercolour on paper of Indian Fauna; one depicting a native frog and the other a native fish each surviving from Bengal in India at the turn of the eighteenth century and each presented framed and glazed in gilded frames