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INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
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AN ILLUSTRATED ALBUM PAGE
INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the page with four miniatures, each depicting a standing lady, the first on a terrace wearing a light gauze gown attached below the breast and playing with her hair, the second leaning back on a tree at night and smoking a huqqa, the third with brightly dressed and offering roses, the fourth wrapped in a grey shawl and holding a rose, laid down between gold floral illuminated borders, the reverse with a calligraphic panel with 7ll. of gold naskh, a line a black tawqi' above, signed Sa'iday (?) Qalandar, laid down between illuminated borders on blue card margins decorated with gold and polychrome floral lattice, framed and glazed
Panel 12 3/8 x 7¾in. (32 x 19.6cm.)
INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the page with four miniatures, each depicting a standing lady, the first on a terrace wearing a light gauze gown attached below the breast and playing with her hair, the second leaning back on a tree at night and smoking a huqqa, the third with brightly dressed and offering roses, the fourth wrapped in a grey shawl and holding a rose, laid down between gold floral illuminated borders, the reverse with a calligraphic panel with 7ll. of gold naskh, a line a black tawqi' above, signed Sa'iday (?) Qalandar, laid down between illuminated borders on blue card margins decorated with gold and polychrome floral lattice, framed and glazed
Panel 12 3/8 x 7¾in. (32 x 19.6cm.)
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