PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

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AN ALBUM PAGE: TWO LADIES VISITING AN ASCETIC
PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, within minor blue border with gilt scrolling vine and wide buff margins, verso with a flowering plant within gilt and polychrome floral borders and wide orange margins
Painting 7 5/8 x 5 ¼in. (19.5 x 13.3cm.); folio 18 5/8 x 13 5/8in. (47.4 x 34.5cm.)

Provenance

Christie's London, 26 April 2012, lot 328

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Lot Essay

For comparable provincial Mughal illustrations of ladies visiting ascetics which have sold recently at auction, see Christie's, London, 10 June 2015, lot 36; Christie's, South Kensington, 12 June 2014, lot 102.

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