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LOT 2026
Framed Watercolour Court Scene Painting
PERSIA, 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
26 x 19 1/2 in. (2.7 kg, 66 x 49.5 cm).
Depicting a court scene with assembled crowd of courtiers and attendants, one in European dress, before a potentate seated beneath a canopy; panel of nastaliq text above; mounted in a glazed wooden frame.
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
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