Lady visiting two nobles

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Lady visiting two nobles
gouache heightened with gold on paper, in a screened courtyard by a pavillion, a lady greets a noble and his companion who sit with two attendants, geese graze at lower right, further buildings visible beyond, white and gold meandering vine border on navy blue ground, pink speckled leaf, mounted, framed and glazed, (one area of flaking, tear across middle), Guler, 1840-50 - 11½ x 9in. (29.3 x 22.8cm.)
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Lot Essay

This leaf is from a large work, other leaves of which have been sold as follows: Christie's King Street, 15 October 1996, lot 26, Sotheby's, 28 February 1967, lots 170-77, 17 October 1996, lots 115-18 and 23 April 1997, lots 154-5.

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