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7. A company school watercolour painting South India, Malabar Coast 2nd half 19th Century Size 10” x 14 ¼” (25.5 x 37 cm) |
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) depicting two men, holding variously a flag and fan, and a flag and a rosary. Inscribed in sepia to the reverse in Hindi and English “Apa oola or a (illegible) the Tribe of Malabar Brahmins” |