Lot n° 173
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Three erotic miniatures - Lot 173
Three erotic miniatures
India, Deccan, 19th century
Polychrome gouaches on manuscript pages in nasta'liq script, two surrounded by lines of text and one full-page.
Size: 21.5 x 12.5 cm
Provenance: Guy Loudmer & Hervé Poulain sale, Roger Peyrefitte's "Le Musée Secret", Drouot Rive Gauche, Paris, December 11-12, 1978, lot 112.
The 1978 catalog indicates that the manuscript is a "Traité sur l'amour physique" written in Urdu, and that the miniatures are reproduced in Evolution des Mœurs, "Les paradoxes de l'Islam", pp. 186, 193-95.
One of the three miniatures shown here is illustrated in the 1978 catalog.
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