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LOT 2684
Indian Erotic Painting with Lovers
LATE 20TH CENTURY A.D.
8 x 6 in. (11 grams, 20.5 x 15 cm).
A polychrome painting presenting a grand building in a rural setting, two guards seated on the ground outside, smoking a hookah together, a third man smoking alone by a small fire; inside the palace, a man and a woman gazing at each other adoringly in bed, intricate detailing to the architecture, flora and fauna; perhaps a royal lifestyle scene; painted on an old manuscript page with dense lines of handwritten script on the reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Personal collection of Harmadar Singh Thind; thence by descent.
Private family collection of a West London gentleman.
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LOT 2684
Indian Erotic Painting with Lovers
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$107 - 134 (for guidance only)
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