PROBABLY HYDERABAD, DECCAN, INDIA, MID-18TH CENTURY

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TWO FOLIOS FROM A DECCANI MANUSCRIPT
PROBABLY HYDERABAD, DECCAN, INDIA, MID-18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within narrow yellow border with polychrome rules, the verso similarly ruled but otherwise plain
Painting 10 3⁄8 x 5 ½in. (26.3 x 14cm.); folio 11 3⁄8 x 6 ½in. (28.7 x 16.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

One of these paintings depicts a seated lady engrossed in playing a sitar or tambura while enjoying a hookah, while the other depicts a Dutch couple. Historical records shed light on the considerable influx of Dutch envoys to Hyderabad in the late 17th and 18th centuries. It is plausible that these paintings were commissioned for a Dutch patron.

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