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INDIA, KISHANGARH, CIRCA 1820
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The chooriyanwallah
India, Kishangarh, circa 1820
With a lady dressed in brocade finery and jewels seated before a chooriyanwallah who holds her hand while smoothing glass bangles onto her arm, the tools of his craft and piles of colorful bangles in front of him and a fire for making more to the side, his wife seated before their humble abode and a tree wrapped in flowering creepers and laden with various types of birds
Opaque pigments and gold on paper
12 3/8 x 8¾ in. (31.4 x 22.2 cm.)
India, Kishangarh, circa 1820
With a lady dressed in brocade finery and jewels seated before a chooriyanwallah who holds her hand while smoothing glass bangles onto her arm, the tools of his craft and piles of colorful bangles in front of him and a fire for making more to the side, his wife seated before their humble abode and a tree wrapped in flowering creepers and laden with various types of birds
Opaque pigments and gold on paper
12 3/8 x 8¾ in. (31.4 x 22.2 cm.)
Provenance
Estate of Mr. Fong Chow, New York