Jehangir preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings Frame:C-Shape Ebony Finish Frame with Gold Lining This particular painting was formerly

This particular painting was formerly part of the Dent Collection

which has been dated to the 1600s

European and American Museums and Collectors

These “seamlessly cast globes continued to be made in Lahore up to the mid-19th century

in Afghanistan

Jehangir preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings Frame:C-Shape Ebony Finish Frame with Gold Lining This particular painting was formerlyIn this very interesting allegorical work, a subject of many interpretations, Jahangir is seen offering a book to Shaikh Husain of the Chishti Shrine, a spiritual descendant of Shaikh Salim, to whom Akbar had gone in the hope of an heir. The prayer was answered, and at birth the prince, later Jahangir, was named Salim in honour of the saint. The principal inscription of the painting tells us that even though Shahs and Kings stand before the Mughal