"THE LESSON. MURSHIDABAD, MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1740. Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a mullah sitting on a terrace with a grey shawl draped over his cream robes, teaches the art of calligraphy to a princess finely dressed in a gold brocade coat and seated against a gold cushion with a gold pen-case beside her, her fellow pupils sit around her, turquoise border with gold floral illumination, slight staining, mounted, framed and glazed. 6½ x 5 1/8in. (16.4 x 13cm.)"
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