Lot Essay
The portrait appear to be unfinished with some of the fine details missing.
Details
Portrait of a woman
gouache heightened with gold on paper, in a grassy plain among small flowers, the woman stands wearing a diaphanous top and shirt over orange trousers with orange shoes and hat, and holds a peacock-feather fly-whisk in one hand and a rose in the other, mounted on a buff leaf with gold margin between black rules, mounted, framed and glazed, Deccan, mid-18th century - 7 x 4in. (18 x 10.2cm.)
gouache heightened with gold on paper, in a grassy plain among small flowers, the woman stands wearing a diaphanous top and shirt over orange trousers with orange shoes and hat, and holds a peacock-feather fly-whisk in one hand and a rose in the other, mounted on a buff leaf with gold margin between black rules, mounted, framed and glazed, Deccan, mid-18th century - 7 x 4in. (18 x 10.2cm.)