NAWAB 'ALIWARDI KHAN SEATED WITH A VISITOR

NAWAB \'ALIWARDI KHAN SEATED WITH A VISITOR

MURSHIDABAD, INDIA, CIRCA 1750-60

Gouache heightened with gold and silver on paper, Nawab \'Aliwardi Khan of Bengal dressed in a silver jama kneels under a canopy smoking a huqqa in the company of a younger nobleman, two attendants behind him hold up morchals, before them a fountain and flowerbeds, laid down between stencilled Bukhara borders, mounted, framed and glazed

Painting 10¾ x 7 7/8in. (27.3 x 19.9cm.); folio 15½ x 11 7/8in. (39.2 x 30.2cm.)