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A SEATED PORTRAIT OF MAHARAO UMED SINGH II OF KOTAH (R.1889-1940)
RAJASTHAN, NORTH INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 20TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold and applied coloured stones and pearls fragments on paper, wearing multi-coloured turban held with an intricate sarpech, with yellow and green borders within polychrome rules
28¾ x 23¾in. (73 x 60.4cm.)

Provenance:
Acquired from Francesca Galloway, London, December 2010

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Although never appointed to an official post within the British Government in India, Maharao Umed Singh II served as an advisor to several government officials. He sent his troops to fight in both, the First and the Second World Wars.

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