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Description: | Sultan Jamshid Quli, the second member of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda, is shown standing on a terrace, his head encircled by a halo and the lower part of his body obscured by a stone parapet decorated with hexagonal motifs. The Sultan wears a white 'jama' with a gold-brocaded white turban containing a sprig of a white flowering plant in a bud. Around his waist is a painted cotton girdle ('patka') worn over a gold-brocaded one in which is thrust a dagger ('katar'). A strap over his right shoulder supports his sword ('talwar') and shield, on which he rests his left hand. In his gloved right hand he holds a hunting falcon. At the top of the pale green sky are stylised clouds. The border has a narrow inner band of gold decorated with florets in a split palmette scroll (shown here) and a wide outer band containing flowering plants executed in gold between black and gold rules. Description Source: Robert Skelton. In: Steven Hooper (ed.). 1997. Catalogue to the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection. University of East Anglia. | Subjects: | painting visual work painting miniature | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=844... | Go to resource |
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