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Portrait of a seated courtesan
Indian, 19th Century
watercolour, black ink and pencil heightened with gold on buff paper, bust portrait, showing the nude beauty holding a flowering branch behind her head, red border, mounted on gold speckled paper -- 10 x 8.5cm.; a man kneeling before a shrine and a woman cradling an infant, both possibly by the same hand -- 30 x 23cm. max; woman breast feeding an infant in an interior -- 15 x 12cm.; Ganesha flanked by two figures -- 13 x 23.5cm.; manuscript leaf with two lines for brown script -- 22 x 33.2cm.; lines of calligraphy, printed, gold speckled border -- 25 x 19cm. (all mounted).
Indian, 19th Century
watercolour, black ink and pencil heightened with gold on buff paper, bust portrait, showing the nude beauty holding a flowering branch behind her head, red border, mounted on gold speckled paper -- 10 x 8.5cm.; a man kneeling before a shrine and a woman cradling an infant, both possibly by the same hand -- 30 x 23cm. max; woman breast feeding an infant in an interior -- 15 x 12cm.; Ganesha flanked by two figures -- 13 x 23.5cm.; manuscript leaf with two lines for brown script -- 22 x 33.2cm.; lines of calligraphy, printed, gold speckled border -- 25 x 19cm. (all mounted).
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