TWO PORTRAITS OF COURTLY LADIES
Delhi and Jaipur Schools, North India, late 19th and 20th century
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, comprising two female portraits, the first featuring a typical North Indian lady of the court resting on a voluminous red bolster, wearing a diaphanous robe, baggy green trousers, several strands of pearls around her neck and encrusted golden jewellery and accessories on her forehead and ears, the composition pasted on later red-speckled borders, the recto with notes and figures in pencil, 22.8cm x 17cm; and a 20th-century replica of a European, light blonde lady wearing a 17th-century costume with lace collar and a Westernised aigrette, copied from an original or a print, the recto plain except for a pasted fragment from a letter or document written in sepia ink and dating to 2nd May 1835 and signed by George White, 28cm x 22cm.
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