A FORLORN LADY
A FORLORN LADY
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A FORLORN LADY

PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, POSSIBLY AWADH OR DECCAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1720-30

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A FORLORN LADY
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, POSSIBLY AWADH OR DECCAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1720-30
A lady sits lovelorn on a carpeted terrace, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within gold and black rules, the pink borders and margins decorated with flowering vines, the reverse with an illuminated panel of animals and flowers against a pink ground
Painting 7 5⁄8 x 5 3⁄8in. (19.5 x 13.7cm.); folio 15 3⁄4 x 11 1⁄2in. (40 x 29.2cm.)
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This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
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Please note that four further paintings from this album depicting scenes from a mythical epic, one with a durbar of the Emperor Shah Alam I (1707-1712), were sold at Sotheby’s New York, 17 March 1988, lots 326-329, attributed to Mughal India circa 1710.  Two of these are now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, inv.nos 2013⁄336 and 2013⁄337.

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For more information on this lot, see the entry for lot 74 in the present sale.

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