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Couple under an archway, India, Deccan, early 19th century
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237
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Couple under an archway, India, Deccan, early 19th century
G…
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,500 - €3,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Couple under an archway, India, Deccan, early 19th century
Gouache and gold on paper depicting a couple standing and embracing, the man dressed in a white jama and wearing a plum turban, the woman wearing a gold skirt with floral motifs, her head and shoulders covered with a transparent muslin veil. The couple stand before a landscape of hills under a poly-lobed archway resting on columns with lotiform bases and capitals, flanked by panelling painted with animals in landscapes. Mounted as an album page on cardboard painted with a margin decorated with scrolls of gilded palmettes alternating with rosettes dotted with red pigments. At the top, the margin is inscribed in Persian "Raja Kashn [?] Rani Maharani". Framed.
Size of page: 38.2 x 29 cm; size of painting: 23 x 15.5 cm
Some wear, a few repaired accidents, a large pest hole in the margin, small stains.
Exhibition:
Miniatures orientales de l'Inde, Galerie Soustiel, Paris, May 1973, n°62 (reprod. p 65.)
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About the sale
Archaeology & Arts of Islam and India
Auction location
Auction time
06/26/2026 at 1:30 PM
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