A lady standing on a low footstool, attributed to the artist Mutassim, India, Deccan, probably Hyderabad, circa 1720-40
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March 30, 12:47 PM GMT
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6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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gouache heightened with gold on paper, laid down on an album page, within four narrow polychrome borders bearing gilt scrolling vines, wide dark blue margins with gilt decoration comprising deer amidst foliage, the reverse with verses of Persian poetry in black nasta'liq script within narrow marbled and dark blue borders and wide gold-flecked buff margins
painting: 13.6 by 7.7cm.
leaf: 39 by 27cm.
The lady in the present painting is closely comparable to an almost identically dressed and jewelled lady standing against a green ground with her arms clasped behind her head. The latter work is ascribed to an artist called Mutassim whose style is characteristic of painting in Hyderabad in the second quarter of the eighteenth century (see Galloway, 2008, no. 23, pp.58-59).
A slightly more elaborate composition depicting a young lady in a green landscape holding on to a flowering tree, probably painted in Aurangabad, north Deccan, dated to circa 1720, is illustrated in Seyller and Seitz, 2010, no. 44, p.132. For comparable paintings of young ladies in similar stances which were painted in the Deccan in the late 17th/ early 18th century, and have sold in these rooms, see 25 April 2012, lot 483 and 22 April 2015, lot 155.
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