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912 x 638 in. (24.1 x 16.2 cm.)
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A lady longing for her absent lover is shown lounging on a terrace as she prepares for the bed chamber. Two attendants kneel beside the central figure, one offering a cup of wine and the other massaging her hand. The impatient lady sits upon a detailed double-overlaid lattice carpet and fiddles with a white garland as she turns toward her attendant. The artist uses vibrant colors and bold patterns to elicit the excitement of giddy, lustful love.

The composition of the present painting can be found in several other examples. Compare the present lot to a painting sold at Christie’s New York, 21 March 2018, lot 336, and an example in the Bodleian Library (MS. Ouseley Add. 171, f. 3v), illustrated by Andrew Topsfield in Paintings from Mughal India, Oxford, 2008, p. 120.

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