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BY THE ARTIST USTA ABU, BIKANER, RAJASTHAN, NORTH WEST INDIA, DATED VS 1832/ 1775-76 AD Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the ruler facing left, depicted with a hooded falcon perched on his right hand, within narrow gold borders and wide buff margins, the reverse with a 2ll. inscription in black devanagari script identifying the subject, the artist and including a Vikram Samvat date '1832', mounted, glazed and framed, with an old Tooth Gallery label on the reverse of the frame Painting 8 1/8 x 4 1/8in. (20.8 x 10.6cm.); folio 10 7/8 x 5 7/8in. (27.7 x 14.9cm.)
The Usta were a professional caste of artists who had served the court of Bikaner for generations, from the late 16th to the 19th century. Abu was a common name in the Usta community across several different generations from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. For further discussion on the Usta community, see Naval Krishna, ‘The Umarani Usta Master-Painters of Bikaner and their Genealogy’, in Topsfield (ed.), 2000, pp.57-64.