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NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY NURPUR, LATE 18TH CENTURY
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NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY NURPUR, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Depicting a lady reclining against a large floral golden cushion smoking a hookah and pleasuring her male lover who cradles her in his arms, he wearing a gold turban and partially undone light purple dhot, set inside a pavilion covered with a carpet and large candles in each corner a large floral curtain rolled up to reveal the scene, inside gold, red and black borders
Opaque pigments on wasli heightened with gold
5¾ x 4 in. (14.6 x 10.1 cm.)
NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY NURPUR, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Depicting a lady reclining against a large floral golden cushion smoking a hookah and pleasuring her male lover who cradles her in his arms, he wearing a gold turban and partially undone light purple dhot, set inside a pavilion covered with a carpet and large candles in each corner a large floral curtain rolled up to reveal the scene, inside gold, red and black borders
Opaque pigments on wasli heightened with gold
5¾ x 4 in. (14.6 x 10.1 cm.)
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, early 1980s
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