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Shankar and Madhava,
gouache heightened with gold on paper, the teacher and his scholar sit opposite each other on a white marble terrace with flower beds infront and trees behind, one holds out a flower to the other, silver margin between black and red rules, floral border, buff leaf, inscribed in black devanagari on verso, (very light rubbing and flaking), central India, circa 1800 - 25.4 x 18.2cm.
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gouache heightened with gold on paper, the teacher and his scholar sit opposite each other on a white marble terrace with flower beds infront and trees behind, one holds out a flower to the other, silver margin between black and red rules, floral border, buff leaf, inscribed in black devanagari on verso, (very light rubbing and flaking), central India, circa 1800 - 25.4 x 18.2cm.
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