AN INDIAN MAIDEN SMOKING HUQQA ON A TERRACE
Pahari Provincial school, Pahari Hills, Northern India, mid to late 19th century

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the vertical composition depicting an Indian maiden clad in an ochre yellow robe resting against a large pink bolster and smoking a huqqa on a palatial terrace, the mountainous background showing two marble palatial complexes in the distance, set within black and white rules, and bright red borders, 21.5cm x 14.3cm.