Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Art & Sculpture Depth: 8” open or 4”

Depth: 8” open or 4” resting

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

so this is not a firm sofa with fair amount of give in the springs

a foray into the area of electronic organs

Rosewood gradually became popular by the 1830s and in the 1840s it was widely used

Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Art & Sculpture Depth: 8” open or 4”Origin: 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