Mughal emperor rides high to make a jumbo auction price

Among several runaway lots at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) Asian Art sale in Dorchester was a 19th century Indian watercolour depicting the Mughal Emperor Akbar II on an elephant.

Consigned from a longstanding collection in west Dorset, the 7 x 9in (17 x 23cm) work was pursued …

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