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