AN ALBUM OF TWENTY-ONE INDIAN MICA PAINTINGS
India, mid to late 19th century

Opaque pigments on mica, comprising twenty-one compositions depicting various moments of Indian life from everyday scenes such as the village well and men at work to ceremonial parades with noblemen in procession, each mounted on the paper album accompanied by a handwritten identifying caption, with paper binding, the spine and corners coloured in red, the album 19.5cm x 15cm, the mica paintings approx 16.5cm x 11.6cm.