An Avadh lady with her attendant holding a hookah on a palace terrace, Murshidabad, 1760-70, gouache on paper heightened with gilt, shown stading on a terrace with white and yellow flowers behind and the sun setting to the background, within a border of scrolling gold flowers on a peach ground, the outer border with large spikey flowerheads and scrolling vine on a blue ground, 25.3 x 36.5cm. Provenance: Maggs Bros., London, 1982, Bruzzi Collection, Hertfordshire, 1982-2015Light staining to outer blue border, slight buckling of paper to peach gilt border