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Description: | An 'amir' (officer), with a flowing moustache, sits against a cushion smoking a spherical bidri 'huqqa'. He is dressed in a flowered 'jama' with a gold turban and sash, and rests his left arm upon his shield, which bears the device of a golden sun. Between the 'amir' and the white-clad singer who performs for him with the aid of a 'tambura' (lute-like instrument), is a square fish-pool containing a fountain, rendered flat without perspectival regression . The servant standing in attendance at the right holds a cloth purse and a peacock-feather fly-whisk. All three figures are shaded by a grapevine growing over a red trellis. The surface of the picture is rubbed, particularly near the right and left edges. Description Source: Robert Skelton. In: Steven Hooper (ed.). 1997. Catalogue to the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection. University of East Anglia. | Subjects: | painting visual work painting miniature | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=841... | Go to resource |
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