AN ILLUSTRATION TO AN ASHTA NAYIKA SERIES
Possibly Mandi, North India, 20th century

Opaque pigments on wove paper, the vertical composition depicting a courtly lady seated on a low throne and reclining on a large bolster under a tree, accompanied by two female attendants, and surrounded by three male peacocks, two of them showing off their 'eyed' tails, the sky crossed by bolts of lightning and filled with rain falling on the central tree and the birds perched there, the scene set within red and white rules and brown borders, 23cm x 18cm.