TWO SCENES FROM PALACE LIFE Provincial school, North West India, late 19th - early 20th century Opaque pigments heightened with silver and gold on paper, the first painting with four women paying respect to a Shaiva shrine characterised by a lingam-yoni statue inside, a tiger chained to the shrine, a lotus pond in the foreground and traditional palatial setting in the middle and background; and the latter with a nobleman and his lover caught in a tender embrace, the maiden fixing the curtain, peacocks on the roof of the palace, a lotus pond in the foreground, each within black rules and set in bright red borders, the largest 33.4cm x 24.8cm.