When I was at the AGO recently, taking in the last bit of Maharajas and their many baubles, I had a déjà vu of a déjà vu.
When I first visited the exhibition in the Fall, I had seen this wonderful western-style portrait in oil paint, of an elaborately adorned Sadiq Muhammad Abbasi.
I couldn’t help but think of another prince when I saw it – a Bachchan. Mumbai nobility.
Take another glance…
Is it chance that brought us from Bahawalpur to Bombay?
I dare say it was a visual dance – a romance – of adornment.
Images of portrait courtesy of Victoria & Albert Museum. Bachchan images courtesy of Wikipedia.
