Indian Possibly Varanasi Early-Mid 19th Century A group of c...

Hammer

£140

Indian
Possibly Varanasi
Early-Mid 19th Century
A group of costume cards and mica overlays
Comprising a costume card with two heads in differing attitudes on a pale blue sky, with an exotic landscape beneath, and 12 polychrome-painted mica overlays, depicting various Indian figures, both male and female
Together with three larger polychrome-painted mica cards depicting Indian figures

This card relates strongly to a similar card in the V&A Museum (IS.32:4-1961) which is dated c. 1830. 

To be sold without reserve

Dimensions:
(Smaller) 4.25 in. (H) x 3 in. (W) 
(Larger) 6 in. (H) x 4.5 in. (W)