LUCKNOW, INDIA, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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AN ALBUM PAGE : PORTRAIT OF A LADY
LUCKNOW, INDIA, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, facing left, wearing a turban secured with a sarpech holding a long thin white feather and a diaphanous white tunic, her right hand slightly raised, her left at waist level, both resting on the jaroka frame, within wide floral frames, with black rules, framed and glazed
17 ¼ x 12 3/8in. (43.8 x 31.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

The finely illuminated borders of this album page are identical to those on a portrait of the Mughal emperor Farukhsiyar formerly in the Collection of Francoise and Claude Bourelier which sold in Paris, Artcurial, 4 November 2014, lot 243. The two paintings must have been part of the same album originally.

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