"Princess Entertaining a Visitor on the Balcony", Folio from the Davis Album

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Mughal paintings from the seventeenth century depict the private life of the court, illustrating the quiet moments of emperors, queens, princes, and princesses in a manner very different from their formal portraits. This scene of a princess entertaining her visitor is filled with exquisite objects, including a carpet, ewers, a musical instrument, jewelry, and a fly whisk. The setting is the Kashmir valley, with distinctive fronds of land going into the lake and the distant snow clad peaks.

"Princess Entertaining a Visitor on the Balcony", Folio from the Davis Album, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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