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Paintings showing ladies indulging in pastimes like flying a kite, playing with a yoyo or combing their hair were intended as gifts to the ruler on auspicious occasions like Diwali, Holi or his birthday. This lady is painted in the distinctive western Rajasthani style of the period, with her large, curving eye, small pursed lips and shaded cheeks. This style of painting evolved in Jodhpur, but was also used in Bikaneri painting as artists moved freely between the two courts. The dark plum-coloured background is used in some other paintings that have inscriptions by Bikaner artists on the reverse, so we can conclude that this one was probably also painted in Bikaner.","physicalDescription":"A small rectangular painting in opaque watercolour on paper showing a lady against a plum-coloured background, with a cloudy sky above. 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London, V&amp;A Publishing, 2009. ISBN.9781851775736 (hbk.), ISBN.1851775730 (hbk.).","id":"AUTH325255"},"details":"Plate 118, page 145","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Jackson, Anna and Ji Wei (eds.) with Rosemary Crill, Ainsley M. Cameron and Nicholas Barnard, compiled by the Palace Museum, translated by Yuan Hong, Qi Yue and Liu Ran. <u>The Splendour of India' Royal Courts : Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>. Beijing: the Forbidden City Publishing House, 2013. Text in English and Chinese. ISBN 9787513403917.","id":"AUTH325369"},"details":"pps.88 and 89","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"Topsfield, Andrew, cat. no. 148, p. 60","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"A lady against a plum-coloured background, with a cloudy sky above. 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