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Mumtaz Mahal
gouache heightened with gold on ivory, the finely painted oval plaque showing Shah Jehan's wife from the waist up in ornate dress holding a rose in one hand, glazed with a brass mount in black wood frame - 3½ x 3in. (9 x 7.6cm.); and four other similar portraits of ladies, all glazed, three mounted and framed, largest also heightened with silver (good condition) - 2¾ x 2½in. (7 x 6.4cm.), all Delhi, 19th century
See illustration for part lot (5)
gouache heightened with gold on ivory, the finely painted oval plaque showing Shah Jehan's wife from the waist up in ornate dress holding a rose in one hand, glazed with a brass mount in black wood frame - 3½ x 3in. (9 x 7.6cm.); and four other similar portraits of ladies, all glazed, three mounted and framed, largest also heightened with silver (good condition) - 2¾ x 2½in. (7 x 6.4cm.), all Delhi, 19th century
See illustration for part lot (5)