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LOT 1640
Framed Indian Watercolour Manuscript Leaf
20TH CENTURY A.D.
12 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (622 grams, 32 x 23.2 cm).
A watercolour painting showing engagement scene with a seated couple accompanied by female musicians on a pavilion, one playing a sitar, the other what is possibly a dholika drum, trees beyond, panel of text above, birds to the border; set in a reveal within a glazed wooden frame.
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
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