Miniature Painting

Description:

Miniature Painting, India, Mughal-style, depicting a court scene with chess players and audience, in a rectangular panel surrounded with border with a continuous landscape of illustrated stories, Persian script calligraphy in a rectangular panel decorated with floral scroll designs, gouache and gold on thick paper, 13 3/4 x 9 in.
Estimate $800-1,000

severe foxing in progress in front and back, water damage and color smudges to top front, paper rolled with some buckling, minor tears along edges.


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