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Did you know that a single folio from a Polier album fetched more than £2,400,000 at auction in 2025?
The Polier albums are the albums, mostly of Indian paintings and calligraphy, that Antoine Polier (1741–1795), a Swiss architect and art collector active in Mughal India, numbered as volumes of his own collection, together with albums made on his behalf as gifts for his European friends. Polier commissioned many of these albums, notably from a workshop run by Mihr Chand, an Indian miniature painter, from c. 1773 onwards. When Polier returned to his hometown of Lausanne, Switzerland, in September 1788, he brought more than 30 albums of Indian paintings with him.
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