A night scene of Shiva puja (recto); Calligraphy (verso)

A prince conversing with a woman while taking refreshments on a terrace (recto); Calligraphy (verso)

Mughal India

A princess on a terrace with attendants at night (recto); Calligraphy (verso)

India, Farrukhabad, Mughal, 18th century

The princess discovers the dead bodies, with heads severed, of her husband and his Brahman friend, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Leaf from the Late Shah Jahan Album: Harem Night-Bathing Scene (recto); Calligraphy Framed by an Ornamental Border of Flowers and Birds (verso)

Mughal India, court of Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–58)

Posthumous portrait of Emperor Jahangir under a canopy (recto); Calligraphy (verso)

India, Mughal, 17th century

The Brahman’s wife who killed a peacock and ate its gallbladder on the physician’s advice, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Nineteenth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Elkaar omhelzend paar op een terras

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Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (reigned 1719–1748) holding a falcon (recto); Calligraphy (verso)

Muhammad Rizavi Hindi, Mahmud ibn Ishaq al-Shahabi

Folio 18 from a Chandana Malayagiri Varta (Story of King Chandana and Queen Malayagiri) of Karamachand: Ravana battles the great vulture Jatayu and defeats him by throwing stones in his mouth (recto); Jatayu approaches Rama and Lakshmana who are wondering where Sita could be (verso)

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Kishangarh

Bilaval ragini

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Smartelijke prinses

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Vrouwen voor een linga-altaar (Bhairavi ragini)

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