This beautiful painting could be considered as representing an archetype for the lifestyle of the ruling classes - both Mughal and Rajput - at the twilight of the Mughal period at the end of the 1🐽8th century. A superbly dressed and bejeweled young nobleman is seated on a fine Persian carpet, gold platters set before him - being fanned by a standing handmaiden behind as four lovely young female musicians play and sing facing him. The scene is lavish and sumptuous and conveys a sense of ordered serenity for the participants.

The outer album page with its multiple foliate borders seem to be in perfect harmony with the central image - its floral designs and patterns echoing the muraqqa' folio💝s of Mughal albums of earlier centuries, when the Mughal empire was at its greatest military strength and diplomatic authority.