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The character is richly adorned with jewellery and wears a headdress in the form of a gold and white tiara with hanging strands of white jewels, and a gold and white jewelled collar and bracelets of gold set with white jewels on the wrists and upper arms. She carries a gold 'sceptre' set with a large diamond.  The background is painted in bold stokes of dark browny-grey gouache. 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