A YOUNG MAIDEN WITH HER DUENNA, KISHANGARH, RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1780

A YOUNG MAIDEN WITH HER DUENNA, KISHANGARH, RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1780 gouache with gold on paper, laid on a gold flecked album page with design of repeated tulips, the young woman seated and listening intently to her elder in the darkness of night, surrounded by gold painted floral border, the reverse with 17 lines of black devanagari script and seal of Maharaja Ramraj Maharaja [..] Bahadur dated AH 1257, framed, 8.5 x 7.2cm (image); 34.5 x 26cm (folio) Provenance: Private collection, London, acquired Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, 2014. Christie's South Kensington, 11 October 2013, lot 545