This 17th century Indian painting attributed to one of the best artists of the Mughal court sold for £42,000 at Sworders’ December 5 Country House Sale.
The 10 x 6in (24 x 14cm) body colour miniature heightened in gold was recently discovered in a private collection in Suffolk where it had been for more than one and a half centuries.
A letter dated July 18, 1846, written in the flowing hand of Robert Emlyn Lofft (1782- 1847) of Troston Hall near Bury St Edmunds, is pasted to the back of the frame.