Lot 75
£7,056
Auction: 11 December 2024 from 10:00 GMT
gouache heightened in gold on paper, red border, inscription in devenagari in upper margin, depicting a maiden stringing garlands, seated in a landscape facing left under a tree in blossom, a female attendant preparing a bed-chamber under a canopy to the right, a peacock on the roof, old inscriptions in pencil on the reverse, mounted, framed and glazed
22cm x 16.7cm
Formerly, the collection of V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018).