Met Acquires Works From Indian Art Collection Previously Rejected Over Provenance Concerns - Hyperallergic

The works had previously been offered to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, but the institution turned them down on the basis that it could not establish “clear and secure” provenance for over half of the collection.

Haidar Ali and Ibrahim Khan, Sultan Muhammad Adil Shah and Ikhlas Khan riding an elephant (c. 1645), gouache with gold on paper (all images courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Metropolitan Muse… [+4196 chars]

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