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Portrait of a noble smoking
gouache on paper, the noble sits on a low platform smoking from a pink enamelled hookah with elephant-headed spout, a man and a boys sit before him on a lattice-and-flowerhead carpet, two dogs lie in the foreground, black margin, red leaf with white rules, verso with three-line black devanagari inscription, inscription, mounted (negligible wear), court of Maharaja Raj Singh, by the artist Chunnilal, (Sitaman school), Central India, dated 1836 -- 24.5 x 29.2cm.
gouache on paper, the noble sits on a low platform smoking from a pink enamelled hookah with elephant-headed spout, a man and a boys sit before him on a lattice-and-flowerhead carpet, two dogs lie in the foreground, black margin, red leaf with white rules, verso with three-line black devanagari inscription, inscription, mounted (negligible wear), court of Maharaja Raj Singh, by the artist Chunnilal, (Sitaman school), Central India, dated 1836 -- 24.5 x 29.2cm.