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The Imams Mahdi and Hasan Askari,
gouache heightened with gold on paper, a pair of album leaves, one showing the Imam Mahdi on horse back, the other showing Hasan Askari seated on a terrace, a book open before him, each in illuminated borders, on buff leaves painted with a gold floral lattice, (very light rubbing, flaking, worming and creasing, areas of possible repainting in borders), provincial Mughal, 18th century - leaf 41 x 28cm.
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gouache heightened with gold on paper, a pair of album leaves, one showing the Imam Mahdi on horse back, the other showing Hasan Askari seated on a terrace, a book open before him, each in illuminated borders, on buff leaves painted with a gold floral lattice, (very light rubbing, flaking, worming and creasing, areas of possible repainting in borders), provincial Mughal, 18th century - leaf 41 x 28cm.
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