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LUCKNOW, PROVINCIAL MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1760; THE QUATRAIN, SIGNED HAFIZ NURULLAH, INDIA, CIRCA 1760
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A DETACHED FOLIO FROM A POLIER ALBUM: A PRINCESS AND HER CHAPERONE
LUCKNOW, PROVINCIAL MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1760; THE QUATRAIN, SIGNED HAFIZ NURULLAH, INDIA, CIRCA 1760
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, her clad in an orange sari, the chaperone dressed in white and holding a staff, laid on card between simple gold floral margins on pink and blue ground, with wide floral borders, numbered 10 in black ink below ; the reverse with a nasta'liq quatrain in similar margins and borders
The folio 15 ¼ x 11 1/8in. (38.8 x 28.2), the painting 6 ½ x 4 ¼in. (16.5 x 10.8cm.), the quatrain 7 x 3 ½in. (17.8 x 8.8cm.)
LUCKNOW, PROVINCIAL MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1760; THE QUATRAIN, SIGNED HAFIZ NURULLAH, INDIA, CIRCA 1760
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, her clad in an orange sari, the chaperone dressed in white and holding a staff, laid on card between simple gold floral margins on pink and blue ground, with wide floral borders, numbered 10 in black ink below ; the reverse with a nasta'liq quatrain in similar margins and borders
The folio 15 ¼ x 11 1/8in. (38.8 x 28.2), the painting 6 ½ x 4 ¼in. (16.5 x 10.8cm.), the quatrain 7 x 3 ½in. (17.8 x 8.8cm.)