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6. A company school watercolour painting South India, Malabar Coast 2nd half 19th Century Size 10” x 14 ¼” (25.5 x 37cm) |
The painting by an unknown Indian artists in the style known as ‘Company School’ (produced for the English officers of the Honourable East India Company) in watercolour and embellished with gold, depicts a weaver and his wife wearing their customary dress. Inscribed in Sepia to the reverse in Hindi and English “Kycalaven or a Tribe of Malabar Weavers”. |