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INDIA, PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A Folio from a Nala-Damayanti Series
India, Provincial Mughal, late 18th Century
Depicting the lovers Nala and Damayanti on horseback with attendants in a forest under a moonlit sky framed by salmon, gold and dark blue borders and mounted on a gold-flecked album page; the reverse with poetic 6-line verses in Nastaliq calligraphy in cartouches upon a gold-leaf ground
Folio: 17¾ x 12 3/16 in. (45 x 31 cm.)
India, Provincial Mughal, late 18th Century
Depicting the lovers Nala and Damayanti on horseback with attendants in a forest under a moonlit sky framed by salmon, gold and dark blue borders and mounted on a gold-flecked album page; the reverse with poetic 6-line verses in Nastaliq calligraphy in cartouches upon a gold-leaf ground
Folio: 17¾ x 12 3/16 in. (45 x 31 cm.)