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.

CONDITION

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LOT 2684