A COLLAGE OF AN INDIAN PAINTING OF A COURT LADY WITH TWO FEMALE ATTENDANTS AND OF A SAFAVID VEGETAL BORDER India, 19th century  Opaque pigments and black ink heightened with gold on paper, the painting depicting a night scene on a palace's terrace, the court lady in the centre drinking from a small cup and getting her foot massaged by one of the attendants, the latter holding two pyriform flasks, set within a separate, earlier red, blue and gold frame, the lower part of the collage decorated with an elegant floral and vegetal bloom with interlocking saz leaves, rosettes and lotus flowers, drawn in black ink over a gold ground, below that a cartouche bearing a note written in a Western hand in black ink stating the collage was found in Vigon Ally's house at Benares, the whole composition framed by a thin layer of gold foil, the back with pasted cut-outs of a painted ring-necked pheasant, another bird in black and white and a bee, mounted on a white cardboard frame, 28cm x 23cm including the frame.