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LOT 2024
Framed Watercolour Painting
INDIA, 20TH CENTURY A.D.
15 1/2 x 12 in. (1 kg, 39.5 x 30.5 cm).
Showing figures in an architectural setting, one couple in an intimate embrace in an upper room, a woman walking towards an attendant in a courtyard, carrying a pipe, a man emerging from a doorway; floral border; mounted in a reveal and a glazed wooden frame.
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
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LOT 2024
Framed Watercolour Painting
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
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