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    Sale 4024

    Asian Art and Indian and Islamic Works of Art

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    12 - 13 October 2006

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    • PICHVAI, KISHANGARH, 19TH CENT
    Lot 670

    PICHVAI, KISHANGARH, 19TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    GBP 1,800

    Estimate

    GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,000

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    PICHVAI, KISHANGARH, 19TH CENTURY
    Gouache heightened with gold on cloth, depicting Krishna making love to a gopi in a tree, three other gopis looking on from below, framed

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