A princess listening to music on a terrace, India, Mughal, mid-18th century

gouache with gold on paper, mounted on an album page with inner red borders decorated with gold foliate scrolls, outer borders of gold-speckled cream paper, reverse with a panel of ta'liq calligraphy in black ink on silver-sprinkled paper with gold interlinear decoration, inner buff borders decorated with gold foliate scrolls, outer plain cream borders, numbered 211 in English on reverse