TWO MUGHAL NOBLEMEN IN CONVERSATION SEATED IN A MARBLE PAVILION
Mughal Provincial School, Northern India, 19th century

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the vertical-format composition depicting a young Mughal prince holding and smelling a rose bud, seated against a large orange bolster, across him another nobleman holding a flower in his hands, both seated under a white marble pavilion leading to a charbagh (quadrilateral garden) with a fountain in the middle, set within red rules, and an illuminated light blue border with vegetal scrollwork, mounted on teal-coloured cardboard, glazed and framed, the full page 32.8cm x 20.8cm.

For a painting with an analogous composition and subject, please see Christie's London, 12 June 2018, lot 32.

Dimensions: the full page 32.8cm x 20.8cm