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Two women,
gouache heightened with gold on paper, seated against cushions on a yellow carpet, on a terrace with a river and its banks beyond, one lady offers the other a small cup of wine from a green glass bottle, the other reaches for it with her right hand and holds a white cloth in her left, a tray of fruit and drink sits beside them, floral border between gold margins, cream album leaf painted with a diaper pattern of florets, empty inscription cartouche above, Mughal India, circa 1650 - miniature 19 x 13.8cm., leaf - 39.5 x 26.7cm.
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