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A prince entertained by musicians and a dancing girl who balances lotas on her head and hands Nurpur, circa 1760 image 1
A prince entertained by musicians and a dancing girl who balances lotas on her head and hands Nurpur, circa 1760 image 2
Lot 230

A prince entertained by musicians and a dancing girl who balances lotas on her head and hands
Nurpur, circa 1760

22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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A prince entertained by musicians and a dancing girl who balances lotas on her head and hands
Nurpur, circa 1760

gouache and gold on paper, red border
165 x 225 mm.

Footnotes

Provenance
Stuker Auction House, Bern, Switzerland, 1975.

For a Nurpur painting of a similar scene, with the same ingenious feat of balancing, in the National Museum, New Delhi, see W. G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London 1973, vol. 1, p. 400, no. 34. The high curving skyline is also a frequent feature of Nurpur painting.

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