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Women playing on a rock slide
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Women playing on a rock slide

Muhammad Faqirullah Khan

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Women playing on a rock slide, album-page from Lucknow. Album-page, ink, pigments, gold and (glued) seed pearls on paper, mounted on card, painting of women in the countryside, some sitting with musicians by a pool, others sliding down a steep rock face, and one smoking, signed Faqirullah (recto), Persian calligraphy signed Ahmad al-Husayni (verso), album-page borders with ogival red trellis containing blue iris and white flowers, Lucknow, Awadh state, India, c. 1760.

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