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LOT 1775
Watercolour Painting Group
INDIA, 19TH CENTURY A.D.
5 3/4 x 4 in. (5 grams, 14.8 x 10.3 cm).
Three bifacial manuscript pages, each with recto with multiple lines of text, verso with watercolour scene with panel of text above and below, including children being instructed in martial arts in a courtyard, riders playing Chovgan, and a warrior wearing a lion skin attacking a demon in a cave, whilst his horse looks on from above. [3, No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s.
The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
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