Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Architectural & Garden thorny rose on the grave

thorny rose on the grave to repel unholy spirits or piling stones to obstruct the demon from rising from the earth

each in individual ceramic pots and captioned below (red lake

The style of the carving

The pressed metal gilded frames are original but not of the highest order

the specimen set poised upon a typical Duncan wooden block and housed within a beautiful scientific sparse museum case with original black painted surface

Two Stunning Calcutta Company School Studies in Watercolour of Indian Fauna; A Frog & A Fish by Shaikh Abdullah c.1800 sub-Architectural & Garden thorny rose on the graveOrigin: Bengal, India Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Formerly of the Estate of Henry G. Plowden Esq. Date: c. 1800 The Works: 12. 25 x 15 each In Frames: 20 x 22. 25 each The wonderfully realised pair of Calcutta School Studies in watercolour on paper of Indian Fauna; one depicting a native frog and the other a native fish each surviving from Bengal in India at the turn of the eighteenth century and each presented framed and glazed in gilded frames