Lot Essay
The devanagari inscription above the painting reads "badshah aurangzeb ki beti begum-ji nataulatiya" (The daughter of Padshah, Aurangzeb, Nataulatiya Begum).
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DELHI, NORTH INDIA, MID 18TH CENTURY
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A ROYAL LADY SEATED ON A TERRACE
DELHI, NORTH INDIA, MID 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting a bejewelled royal lady with now erased nimbus accompanied by two attendants serving refreshments and a further lady playing the tanpura, traces of two partly erased seals in the lower left-hand corner, set on wide ochre margins with later added devanagari inscription above, reverse with a pair of nasta'liq couplets in sepia ink set on white cloud outlined in gold on a ground of gold vegetal motifs, mounted inside later silver strapwork margins on blue ground inside wide ochre margins, with later nast'aliq inscription above and devanagari inscription below, set in wide silk-covered mount
Ill. 9½. x 6 5/8in. (24.1 x 16.8cm); Folio 8 x 10 7/8in. (23 x 27.7cm)
DELHI, NORTH INDIA, MID 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting a bejewelled royal lady with now erased nimbus accompanied by two attendants serving refreshments and a further lady playing the tanpura, traces of two partly erased seals in the lower left-hand corner, set on wide ochre margins with later added devanagari inscription above, reverse with a pair of nasta'liq couplets in sepia ink set on white cloud outlined in gold on a ground of gold vegetal motifs, mounted inside later silver strapwork margins on blue ground inside wide ochre margins, with later nast'aliq inscription above and devanagari inscription below, set in wide silk-covered mount
Ill. 9½. x 6 5/8in. (24.1 x 16.8cm); Folio 8 x 10 7/8in. (23 x 27.7cm)