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DECCAN, 18TH CENTURY
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A DOUBLE-SIDED ALBUM PAGE
DECCAN, 18TH CENTURY
Gouache on paper, recto with miniature of a nude girl with bright orange cloak over her head against a chocolate ground, midnight blue margins decorated with spiralling green foliage issuing yellow flowerheads, verso with four lines of bold nasta'liq reserved in clouds, illuminated with polychrome vegetal arabesque against gold and blue ground, the yellow margins with spiralling vegetal arabesque issuing small blue and large red floral sprays, edges of album page worn, slight flaking on miniature
Folio 16 x 10½in. (40 x 27.2cm.); miniature 7 x 3¾in. (17.8 x 9.3cm.)
DECCAN, 18TH CENTURY
Gouache on paper, recto with miniature of a nude girl with bright orange cloak over her head against a chocolate ground, midnight blue margins decorated with spiralling green foliage issuing yellow flowerheads, verso with four lines of bold nasta'liq reserved in clouds, illuminated with polychrome vegetal arabesque against gold and blue ground, the yellow margins with spiralling vegetal arabesque issuing small blue and large red floral sprays, edges of album page worn, slight flaking on miniature
Folio 16 x 10½in. (40 x 27.2cm.); miniature 7 x 3¾in. (17.8 x 9.3cm.)
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