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| Keywords: Indian - Single Leaf of a Pleasure Pavilion - Walters W904 - Detail.jpg This single leaf Walters W 904 shows a gathering of pleasure-seeking men outside a pavilion where a number of women sit The painting which dates to the middle of the 12th century AH/AD 18th was executed in northern India possibly Lucknow Some of the awaiting women drink wine while others attend to the hookahs In the right corner a man in yellow dress sits with betel quids watching two men embroiled in a dispute one with a dagger drawn A second pair at the far end and close to the pavilion seems also to be enraged enough to draw blood The rest wait in anticipation smoking and conversing circa 1163 AH/AD 1750 Mughal ink pigments paper cm 33 3 25 1 accession number W 904 7883 John and Berthe Ford Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2002 place of origin Lucknow India Walters Art Museum license 2D Mughal miniatures in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review 18th-century Mughal miniatures Watercolor paintings of women of India | ||||
