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Lot 87
  • 87

An Illustrated and Illuminated Album Page: A princess smoking a hookah on a terrace, India, Provincial Mughal, late 18th century

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gouache and Gold on Paper
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicting a lady on an elaborate seat smoking a hookah with an attendant holding a fly whisk, laid down on an album page decorated with an inner dark blue border filled with gold scrolling flowers, margins ruled in colours and gold, outer margins filled with a rococo design in arcades of thick scrolling vines enclosing vases and sprays, some use of blue and red 

Condition

In good overall condition, some small areas of flaking to the miniature, a few nibbles to edge of album leaf, colours bright, as viewed.
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