THE WOMEN OF THE ZENANA AT LEISURE

NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1760

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THE WOMEN OF THE ZENANA AT LEISURE
NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1760
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicting three pairs of elegantly dressed ladies enjoying food and wine on a raised terrace in a walled garden with central pond, gold decorated floral borders on cropped margins, partially erased inscription in gold devenagari in the lower right-hand corner
Painting 8¾ x 5in. (22.4 x 12.5cm.); folio 11 5/8 x 7½in. (29.6 x 19cm.)

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Lot Essay

His painting is possibly from a Ragamala series, closely comparable to a set attributed to Hyderabad circa 1760 (Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, London, 1981, no. 426vi, p. 508).

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