Description:

Indian painting of a woman in a Chinese-decorated room, by an unknown artist from Surat (Gujarat) (c. 1740)
The pale-skinned, high-class woman lieing down is listening to her servant playing a lute. Sprawled on the floor beside the women is a young African pageboy, presumably a slave bought from east Africa.

Date: unknown

Copyright: Lent to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Object ID:LN1994-089