A Mullah and pupil, gouache heightened with gold on paper, the pair sit on a cream carpet on a terrace, the bearded teacher, wearing a gold and white turban and trefoil patterned robe kneels before two books and a pencase, his young pupil sits quietly opposite, gold margin betewen gold and coloured rules, on blue leaf painted with gold flowering vine, glazed and framed, (some creasing and flaking), Mughal, 18th century - 14¼ x 9½in. (24.5 x 26cm.)