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A prince giving audience
Mughal late 16th century
gouache heightened with gold on paper, in a raised pavilion within a walled courtyard with verdant landscape beyond, the prince, fanned by a servant, holding an apple and musical instrument, listens to the words of a barefoot supplicant noble, surrounded by numerous courtiers wearing a variety of turbans and brightly coloured robes discussing amongst themselves, one with a falcon, outside the walls in the foreground three grooms wait with horses beside the gatekeeper, gold margins between black rules, buff border with gold arabesque scrolling interlace, on gold leaf with polychrome scrolling flowering vine (negligible creasing and flaking), mounted, framed and glazed
miniature 9½ x 7in. (23.9 x 16.5cm.)
leaf 16 x 10¾in. (41 x 27.6cm.)
