TWO MEWAR PAINTINGS: A ROYAL COUPLE ON A TERRACE AND TWO MAIDENS IN THE WILDERNESS
Mewar, Udaipur, Rajasthan, North-Western India, 19th century

Opaque pigments and ink heightened with gold on paper, comprising a vertical composition depicting a royal couple being entertained by female musicians on a terrace, behind them a standing female attendant holding a flywhisk and typical Indian white marble palatial architecture, at the top 5ll. of black ink Devanagari script against a light yellow ground, set within black and white rules, and blue and red borders, in a white cardboard mount, 17.8cm x 12.5cm excluding the mount; and a similar composition with two standing maidens in the wilderness, set within black and white rules, and concentric polychrome borders, 26.3cm x 18cm.