Lot 129
AWAITING THE LOVER
INDIA, PUNJAB HILLS, SUKET, CIRCA 1810-20
£25,200
Auction: Indian Paintings from the Collection of William & Mildred Archer | Lots 84 to 152 | 12 June at 10am
Description
gouache heightened in gold on paper, floral margin, pink border, depicting a lady in dark green dress and white veil sitting beside a tambura toying with a hookah, her shoulders covered with a dark red cloak, leaning against a mauve cushion, keeping warm with a brazier, to the left a white lampshade with burning lamp and beyond is a standing lady in mauve skirt and dark green and red veil, crimson blind above secured by a white cord, in the background grey walls with a doorway through which can be seen a pair of lights and a portion of a bed with fluttering coverlet, mounted, glazed and framed
Dimensions
Folio: 26cm x 19 cm (10 2/8 x 7½in).
Provenance
Acquired before 1973.
Footnote
Literature:
W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, Vol. I, p. 423 and Vol. II, illustrated on p. 334.
W.G. Archer, Pahari Miniatures; A Concise History, Oxford University Press, 1975, p. 25.
