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BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF A PRINCE
DATIA, CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 1800-1810
Opaque watercolor with gold on paper, numbered
324 on reverse
Painting 6æ x 7Ω in. (17.3 x 19 cm.)
folio 8æ x 9Ω in. (22.1 x 24 cm.)
$3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE
Private collection, London, formed between the
late 1940s and the late 1960s.

A number of other paintings from this series are
known, and the series is discussed in Konrad
Seitz, Orchha, Datia, Panna: Miniaturen von den
rajputischen Höfen Bundelkhands 1580-1820,
Sammlung Eva und Konrad Seitz, vol. II, Cologne,
2015, nos. 59.1-59.10 and page 222.

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