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PROVINCIAL MUGHAL INDIA, PROBABLY LUCKNOW, MID-18TH CENTURY; THE BORDERS CIRCA 1770-1780
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AN ALBUM PAGE: A RULER SMOKING A HUQQA
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL INDIA, PROBABLY LUCKNOW, MID-18TH CENTURY; THE BORDERS CIRCA 1770-1780
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicted facing left, reclining on a bolster, wearing an elegant green tunic, his tulwar and spittoon laid before him, with wide floral borders between two margins of foliate tendrils, a line of nasta'liq script above and below identifying the sitter as 'Abd al-Mujid Khan, mounted
15 ¼ x 10 ¾in. (38.8 x 27.4cm.)
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL INDIA, PROBABLY LUCKNOW, MID-18TH CENTURY; THE BORDERS CIRCA 1770-1780
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicted facing left, reclining on a bolster, wearing an elegant green tunic, his tulwar and spittoon laid before him, with wide floral borders between two margins of foliate tendrils, a line of nasta'liq script above and below identifying the sitter as 'Abd al-Mujid Khan, mounted
15 ¼ x 10 ¾in. (38.8 x 27.4cm.)
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